Oprah Daily
“Shine Bright” by Danyel Smith is a Sparkling Ode to Black Woman Singers
Review: The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
The Boston Globe
Reclaiming Black life and joy, in ‘The Trayvon Generation’
Boston Sunday Globe Review of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Oxford American
Cut Me Loose, November 2019
The New York Times
Book Review for Elizabeth Acevedo’s Beautiful With The Fire On High
Op-Ed: What It’s Like to Be Black in Austin
In These Times
The chronic stress impacts of racism and sexism on Black women’s health, March/April 2019
Playbill
Carnegie Hall’s Musical Workshop at Sing Sing Prison Celebrates 10 Years, February 2019
Kirkus Reviews
It Was All A Dream, on America’s Broken promise to Black millennials by Reniqua Allen, January 2019
James Baldwin’s niece, Aisha Karefa-Smart, on the re-issue of Little Man, Little Man, September 2018
Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black, September 2018
Interview with the hilarious & brave Sara Farizan, also a legend, September 2018
Interview with the legend Jacqueline Woodson, September 2018
Backstage
Michelle Yeoh, Star of Crazy Rich Asians, on 30 Years in the Business, January 2019
John David Washington on the Valuable Lessons He Learned on the Set of Spike Lee’s ‘Black KkKlansman’ Cover Story, August 2018
Medium
The Black Social Media Paradox, December 2018
Finding Sanctuary at Jewish Surf Camp August 2018
On travel & discovery in Italy: Florence, Rome and Naples May 2018
Village Voice
For Colored Girls When the Rainbow Flag is Not Enough June 2018
Building a Book Scene in the Bronx May 2018
Harper’s Bazaar (US)
Everything is Love is the Ultimate Ode to Black Freedom June 2018
The Millions
Reconsidering Pablo Neruda in light of The Poet’s Calling June 2018
Selected Essays
I Wish My Mother Would Call, Gawker
The Most Beautiful City in the World, (Edited versions appeared on PostBourgie & in the Austin American Statesman as well as The End of Austin.)
Because I can’t help myself & this actually happened…
My interview with the unparalleled Octavia Butler in 2004
Joshunda Sanders 