He is the inaugural director[1] of the Center for Educators and Schools of The New York Public Library, and formerly the associate director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,[2] where he was also a scholar in residence.
[4] He is the author of The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History, which won the 2023 Nonfiction Literary Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
[5] Jones is a long time member of the board of directors of Voices of a Peoples History of the United States, founded by Anthony Arnove and Howard Zinn to organize and promote public performances of primary texts from radical American history.
[9] He has also lent his voice to other projects, such as The Flores Exhibits (a series of short videos amplifying the voices of children held in detention facilities at the U.S. / Mexico Border)[10] and he has narrated more than twenty audiobooks, including Hegemony or Survival,[11] Detroit, I Do Mind Dying,[12] and Marx in Soho.
Jones has been published in a wide variety of media including The New York Times,[15] The Guardian,[16] Socialist Worker,[17] Jacobin,[18] and Chalkbeat.