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Public Speaking
Leading in the After Times: Remarks for my alma mater, Emma Willard’s, Honors Convocation
Oprah Daily
Review: The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Review: Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford
Review: Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
The Boston Globe
Boston Sunday Globe Review of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Oxford American
Cut Me Loose, November 2019
The Nation
Review: The Subversive Joy of ‘Hustlers’
TIME Magazine
Review: Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Review: A Family Grows in Brooklyn – Jacqueline Woodson’s Red at the Bone
Review: Patsy May Be Fiction But Its Story of a Black Woman Immigrant Is Searingly True
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
Topic
Black Girl Magic, April 2019
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
‘Freight Train’ author/illustrator Donald Crews & his daughter Nina on continuing a tradition in children’s books, February 2019
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
Bitch Media
Q&A with ‘Reclaiming Space’ author Feminista Jones, January 2019
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
Literary Hub
From Apartment to Bryant Park: A Poetry Salon Grows Up July 2018
Harper’s Bazaar (US)
Everything is Love is the Ultimate Ode to Black Freedom June 2018
Longreads
Celebrating a Profound Literary Inheritance: Glory Edim on the Well-Read Black Girl Anthology, November 2018
Who Sank El Faro? An Interview with Rachel Slade May 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
