Writing
Selected Essays and Publications

Regeneration: Black Cinema, 1898–1971
Doris Berger and Rhea L. Combs, DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. 2022

Scurlock’s Washington
Rhea L. Combs and Paul Gardullo, from Beauty Born of Struggle: The Art of Black Washington. 2022

This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
Edited with text by Hilton Als, Rhea L. Combs. Foreword by Rhea L. Combs (2024)

Contact High:
A Visual History of Hip-Hop
Vikki Tobak, Clarkson/Potter, 2018

Black Joy and Resistance: A Photo Book
Introduction by Rhea L. Combs, Adrienne Waheed, 2018

"The Moses Sisters, Pioneers of African American Cinema"
Special volume supplement. A project co-presented by Kino Films, University of Chicago, Yale University, Library of Congress and The National Museum of African Americn History and Culture

"Black Lives Matter, Then and Now"
The Public Historian. Vol. 37, No. 3 (August 2015), pp. 128-136 (9 pages)
Published By: University of California Press

Self-Representation and Hope:
The Power of the Picture
Through the African American Lens, Bunch, Lonnie; Willis, Deborah, and Rhea L. Combs. London: Giles, Ltd. February 2015

The Legacy of Marlon Riggs
Marlon Riggs: A Biography

Art, History, and Culture: Select Chronology of Black Women and the Moving Image,
Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970. (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2008), 62 – 69, 147 – 152.

Catwalking Through Culture: Notes from the 2002 Smithsonian Silk Road Festival Journal of American Folklife, Special Issues Publication · Jan 1, 2008