2018: Nominated for President of the American Sociological Association (Accepted)

2018: Film: Aldon Morris: The Scholar Affirmed (Documentary), Winner Best Documentary, Hell’s Kitchen Film Festival

2018: Lifetime Achievement Award, History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

2018: Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, History of Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

2018: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

2017: John D McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior

2017: Film: The Great War of the Harlem Hellfighters, (Documentary) film by François Reinhardt, Paris, France

2017: Award for Outstanding Leadership in Social Activism, Community Organizing, and Scholarly Teaching, Brooklyn, NY  City Council

2017: Fulbright Specialist Award The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology

2016: R. R. Hawkins Award

2016: Prose Award for Excellence in Social Science

2016: Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, Association for Humanist Sociology

2016: Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, American Sociological Association

2016: William Julius Award, for sociological Practice, Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology

2016: Film: Aldon Morris: The Scholar Affirmed (Documentary).

2015: Lester F. Ward Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied and Clinical Sociology.

2014: Chair, W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Career of Scholarship Award American Sociological Association

2013: Ran for President of the American Sociological Association (Not Elected)

2013: A. Wade Smith Award for Teaching, Mentoring and Service Association of Black Sociologists

2012: Nominated for President of the American Sociological Association (Accepted)

2009: Cox-Johnson – Frazier Award, American Sociological Association

2006: Joseph Sandy Himes Award for Lifetime Scholarship Association of Black Sociologists

2005: Nominated for Vice President of the American Sociological Association (Declined)

2005: Nominated for Editorship of the American Sociological Review (Declined)

2003: Nominated for Vice President of the American Sociological Association (Declined)

1997: Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chaves, Rosa Parks Visiting Professorship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1995: Certificate of Leadership Award, Association of Black Sociologists

1988: Outstanding Leadership Award as President of the Association of Black Sociologists from

1986-88: Membership of the Association of Black Sociologists

1988: Drum Major Award, University of Michigan Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Epsilon Chapter

1987: Outstanding Young Graduate Award, Bradley University For The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

1986: Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association

1986: Honorable Mention, C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems

1986: Gustavus Myers Award

1986: Co-winner, Annual Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association

1985: CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of 1984