Salamishah Tillet (she/her)
@salamishah
Professor @Rutgers_Newark; Director of @ExpressNewark; & winner of @pulitzerprizes in criticism for writing in @nytimes; cofounder of @alongwalkhome
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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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…