Frederick is a two-time New York Times bestselling author of The Black Friend (2020) and Patriarchy Blues (2022), Better Than We Found It (2022) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - The Courage to Dream (2022). He was recognized for the International Literacy Association’s 2021 Children’s & Young Adults’ Book Award, is a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list-maker for marketing and advertising, an activist, philanthropist, and poet. Frederick was also honored with the 2023 Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Vanguard Award, the 2018 Comic-Con Humanitarian of the Year award and is a member of the 2018 “The Root 100" list of Most Influential African Americans.

In recent years, Frederick's community efforts have raised over $50 million dollars to support those in-need. Including his Covid-19 support effort, the #RentRelief campaign, which raised over $2 million dollars to send mutual aid to individuals for basic necessities during the height of the pandemic. As well as initiatives to support abortion access, banned books, and the rights of queer youth. He was also the sole creator of the largest GoFundMe campaign in history, the #BlackPantherChallenge, which ultimately raised over $950 thousand dollars and allowed more than 75,000 children worldwide to see 'Black Panther’ for free.

His forthcoming literary works are his debut poetry collection, We Alive, Beloved, his debut novel, This Thing of Ours, and the non-fiction essay collection, Color Me Grateful.