James B. Borders IV is the author of Marking Time, Making Place: An Essential Chronology of Blacks in New Orleans since 1718 (Beckham House, 2015). Borders is also a consultant specializing in organizational development and capacity building for small and emerging cultural and social-service nonprofit corporations. He has previously served as executive director of the Louisiana Division of the Arts; managing director of the National Black Arts Festival; managing director of Junebug Productions (an outgrowth of the legendary Free Southern Theater); founding editor of The New Orleans Tribune; editor of The Black Collegian Magazine; coordinator of major events at the University of Rhode Island; and co-founder of the Black Theatre Group, which evolved into Rites & Reason Theatre at Brown University. Borders is a graduate of Brown University (A.B. 1971, A.M. 1978).

James B. Borders IV is the author of Marking Time, Making Place: An Essential Chronology of Blacks in New Orleans since 1718.