--- title: Tobin Miller Shearer | TIME description: Miller Shearer is a professor of history and director of African-American Studies at the University of Montana. He is the co-author of Been in the Struggle: Pursuing an Antiracist Spirituality canonical: https://time.com/author/tobin-miller-shearer/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/tobin-miller-shearer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Tobin Miller Shearer ## Tobin Miller Shearer _Miller Shearer is a p_ _rofessor of history and director of African-American Studies at the University of Montana. He is the co-author of_ [_Been in the Struggle: Pursuing an Antiracist Spirituality_](https://www.amazon.com/Been-Struggle-Pursuing-Antiracist-Spirituality/dp/151380944X) ## Tobin Miller Shearer *  Jun 19, 2024 ### [The Civic Promise of Juneteenth](https://time.com/6989351/juneteenth-civic-education-promise-essay/) Juneteenth has opened the door to a focused telling of Black history, writes Tobin Miller Shearer. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/tobin-miller-shearer/","name":"Tobin Miller Shearer"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/tobin-miller-shearer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/tobin-miller-shearer/"},"name":"Tobin Miller Shearer","jobTitle":null,"description":"Miller Shearer is a professor of history and director of African-American Studies at the University of Montana. He is the co-author of Been in the Struggle: Pursuing an Antiracist Spirituality","url":"https://time.com/author/tobin-miller-shearer/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```