I've been thinking about Sally Hemings's legacy since grad school & in my first book. Always honored to return to her & this time to mediate on Suzan-Lori Parks latest at The Public Theater:
‘Sally & Tom’ Frees Sally Hemings From Being a Mere Footnote nytimes.com/2024/05/10/the…

This essay has my heart. I wrote when I thought I could write anymore, so I thank Ella Watson and Gordon Parks for being my muse.

This.

Academic Freedom Under Fire Politicians despise it. Administrators aren’t defending it. But it made our universities great—and we’ll miss it when it’s gone.
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

It is with deep admiration and great delight that I share news that our 2024 Honorary Degree Recipient and Commencement Speaker at Rutgers University-Newark is one of the greatest lyricists of all time: Black Thought

Thank you for being there!

Sharing my latest: My New York Times Books
review of Lesa Cline-Ransome new novel in verse, 'One Big Open Sky.'

A Child’s-Eye View of One Black Family’s Covered-Wagon Journey nytimes.com/2024/04/12/boo…

In other country music news,
Country star Morgan Wallen arrested, accused of throwing chair from bar roof wapo.st/4cKPFl3

Just sayin'. #NCAAWBB #southcarolinavsIowa

Still very much undefeated. #southcarolinavsIowa #NCAAWBB

Some of you asked, and a few of us answered. Here's our not-so-hot take on BEYONCÉ’s Act II, 'Cowboy Carter,' a roundtable/hoedown with me, and my New York Times Arts colleagues Wesley Morris, Ben Sisario, and Lindsay Zoladz.

nytimes.com/2024/04/02/art…

Still undefeated.

Sexual violence ‘largely unpunished’ in Haiti, UN says
cnn.com/2024/03/28/ame…

The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies: Hysterectomies keep them working, undistracted by doctor visits or the hardship of menstruating in a field with no access to running water, toilets or shelter. nytimes.com/2024/03/24/wor…

Always so necessary and prescient. 'We are in the midst of a radical abandonment of a compact that the civil rights movement forged, a shared understanding that racial inequality is harmful to democracy.' - Ida Bae Wells nytimes.com/2024/03/13/mag…

Just dropping a few bars from my profile of regina aminu for Harper’s BAZAAR

Vision: samira nasr
Editir: Stephen Mooallem
Photography: LuisAlbertoRodríguez
harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-t…

When African Women Are Raped, Where Is the Outrage? nytimes.com/2024/03/20/opi…

Thank you so very, very much.

I'm forever grateful to have had the opportunity to write this profile on Regina King for the April cover of Harper’s BAZAAR
Regina’s Resolve:
Regina King on learning to live with loss, the legacy of Shirley Chisholm, and finding a way forward

harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-t…