Work.

Features.

‘I’m honoring these people’: Spike Lee on ‘filling’ the Brooklyn Museum with his creative sources | The Guardian US, October 11, 2023

Meet Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, the First Female Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana | The Carengie Reporter, December 9, 2022

The Football Game That Transcends Tradition | The Atlantic, November 23, 2021

Meet the Women Bringing Weed to the Deep South | Rolling Stone, July 1, 2021

“Very American Photographs” | The Atlantic, May 2021

“How To Remember A Life” | The Atlantic, January/February 2021

“Black Lives Matter Just Entered Its Next Phase ”| The Atlantic, September 3, 2020

“The Violence That Shaped Our Nation” | Rolling Stone, July 18, 2020

“Where Are All the Black Women Pilots?” |AFAR, February 20, 2020

“Harlem’s Schomburg Center: Celebrating the History and Culture of the Black Experience” | The Carnegie Reporter. November 1, 2019

“Black Milwaukeeans Are Ready to Fight for Their Communities”| Zora, October 29, 2019

“In Life and After Her Death, Sandra Bland Taught Others About Activism” | Broadly, VICE, December 7, 2018

‘The Blood is at the Doorstep’ is a complex look at the quest for justice for Dontre Hamilton | Mic, October 30, 2017

White Milwaukee lied to itself for decades, and in 1967 the truth came out | Timeline, August 2, 2017

Ace Jackson and the Revolutionary Women of the Harlem Globetrotters | Rolling Stone, April 18, 2017

Forward Into Light: A History of Women Marching | Man Repeller, January 20, 2017

Trials of a Century: On O.J.: Made in America | Brooklyn Magazine, August 3, 2016

How To Survive A Lynching | BuzzFeed News, June 23, 2016

The Fierce Urgency of Nina Simone Now | The Nation, July 2, 2015

Jacob Lawrence’s Art as Journalism | The Nation, May 8, 2015

Essays

‘Unity’ Is Not What America Needs Right Now| The Atlantic, January 22, 2021

“What Toni Morrison Knew About Trump”| The Atlantic, August 13, 2019

Teaching Disobedience | New York Times Magazine, September 13, 2015

Revelations About Being Brown In A World Of White Beauty | BuzzFeed, May 21, 2015

Teaching the camera to see my skin | BuzzFeed, April 2, 2014

Reviews & Criticism

The Exhibit That Reveals Toni Morrison’s Obsessions | The Atlantic, April 22, 2023

What Ordinary Family Photos Teach Us About Ourselves | The Atlantic, March 8, 2023

Gayl Jones returns after 20 years with a new novel | Andscape, September 30, 2021

“A Documentary That Shows Another Side of Toni Morrison” | The Atlantic, June 25, 2019.

“'Leaving Neverland' and the Burden of the Postmortem Exposé” | The Atlantic, March 7, 2019

“Uncovering the Roots of Caribbean Cooking” | The Atlantic, January 2, 2019

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn review – the ills of paradise | The Guardian, July 19, 2016

Beyoncé’s Lemonade is #blackgirlmagic at its most potent | The Guardian, April 24, 2016

‘Whiteness is still front and center’: Go Set a Watchman – panel review | The Guardian, July 14, 2015

Black memoir in 2015: the year America broadened its canon | The Guardian, December 31, 2015

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – an urgent wake-up call | The Guardian, July 14, 2015

Black Bodies In White Words, Or: Why We Need Claudia Rankine | NPR, March 4, 2015

All About Skin Resists Singular Story | Poets & Writers, November/December 2014

Columns & opinion

“Men Are Allowed to Rage. Serena Williams Has to Be Graceful.” | ELLE.com, September 11, 2018

““‘BlacKkKlansman’ and Charlottesville Show Us There's No Post-Racial America.” | NBC News, THINK, August 10, 2018

“Rachel Dolezal's claim that she is black is the whitest possible way to deal with her issues” | NBC News, THINK, May 6, 2018

Meghan Markle is no modern-day Cinderella. She's better. | NBC News, THINK, November 28, 2017

Kaepernick’s Lawsuit Shows Why Action Across the Board Is Necessary to Support Workers of Color | Rewire, November 3, 2017

The acquittal in Sylville Smith's death shows that too little changes in Milwaukee, despite protests | Mic, June 22, 2017

Milwaukee is my hometown. These clashes were decades in the making | The Guardian, August 15, 2016

Can black celebrities shake America out of its racial justice slumber? | The Guardian, July 28, 2016

We’re in an amazing black cultural moment. Can we avoid the backlash? | The Guardian, May 15, 2016

Hamilton at the White House: why this moment means so much | The Guardian, March 15, 2016

Can Sanders win the black Democratic vote? He’s got a long way to go | The Guardian, February 9, 2016

Beyoncé’s Formation reclaims black America’s narrative from the margin | The Guardian, February 8, 2016

An all-white jury convicted Daniel Holtzclaw of rape. It’s almost enough | The Guardian, December 11, 2015

Our world can be bleak, but it’s crucial to find sources of joy every day | The Guardian, December 4, 2015

Dystopian stories used to reflect our anxieties. Now they reflect our reality | The Guardian, October 26, 2015

Government policies based on racist myths help dissolve black families | The Guardian, September 20, 2015

Bernie Sanders must show he takes race as seriously as class struggle | The Guardian, August 14, 2015

Politicians: don’t talk about ‘family’ like it only has one definition | The Guardian, July 14, 2015

Rachel Dolezal’s definition of ‘transracial’ isn’t just wrong, it’s destructive | The Guardian, June 16, 2015

Do Michelle Obama’s comments on race resonate with black women? Panel verdict | The Guardian, May 12, 2015

The lack of female genitals on statues seems thoughtless until you see it repeated | The Guardian, April 13, 2015

“Ferguson, goddamn: No indictment for Darren Wilson is no surprise. This is why we protest” | The Guardian, November 24, 2014

“For every Michael Dunn guilty verdict, a George Zimmerman still goes free” | The Guardian, October 2, 2014