Work.

Features.

‘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

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

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

Meghan Markle is no modern-day Cinderella. She's better. | NBC 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