McClendon is the editor of the American Philosophical Association newsletter, Philosophy and the Black Experience. He is an ex officio member of the Committee on Blacks in Philosophy—American Philosophical Association.[2]
He has lectured widely throughout the country and abroad, and was the Charles Phelps Taft lecturer for the 35th anniversary of the University of Cincinnati's African-American Studies Department, the keynote speaker for Black History Month at Mississippi State University, and a faculty member for the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute.[2]
Books
McClendon is the author or coauthor of:
C. L. R. James's Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism Or Marxism-Leninism? (Lexington Books, 2005)[3]
Beyond the White Shadow: Philosophy, Sports and the African American Experience (with Stephen Ferguson and Malik Simba, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2012)
Philosophy of Religion and the African American Experience: Conversations with my Christian Friends (Brill-Rodopi, 2017)[4]
African American Philosophers and Philosophy: An Introduction to the History, Concepts, and Contemporary Issues (with Stephen Ferguson, Bloomsbury, 2019)[5]
Black Christology and the Quest for Authenticity: A Philosophical Appraisal (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)[6]