Selected Works

HISTORIES AND ARCHIVES    

“The Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset” The New Yorker

“What Happened To Playboy’s First Cover Girl?” ZORA

“The Unbounded Life of Kathleen Collins” Frieze

 “Bones that revealed a Texas town’s forgotten racial past deserve respect.” The Guardian

“Kwame Brathwaite’s Photographic Vision of a Black Female Utopia”Artsy

INTERVIEWS/PROFILES

“Gucci Mane Talks About Writing A Book” Vulture

“Claudia Rankine on Black Glamour” The Cut

“Farewell My (2) Dope Queens!” ELLE

“Poet Nikki Giovanni on Age, Identity, and the Passing of Time” Shondaland

“Issa Rae Talks Insecure, Sex Scenes, and Black Female Friendship”  Cosmopolitan

OP-EDS

“How America Fails Black Girls” The New York Times

“Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem Protest” Rolling Stone

“Why the Debate Over Nate Parker Is So Complex” The Atlantic

“Notre Dame and the Racial Bias of Charitable Giving” PAPER

“Even If Biden Wins, Have We Really Won?” GEN

PERSONAL ESSAYS

“A Hunger for Men’s Eyes” Catapult

“How I Overcame My Anger as a Black Writer Online” Lenny Letter

“But What Will Your Parents Think?” Longreads

“Seeing Blackface In Public Is Worse Than I Expected” ZORA

“Why I Got A Labiaplasty In My 20s” Splinter News

REPORTED FEATURES

“In Search of Black Atlantis” Hazlitt

“Weeksville...Is Fighting for Survival” The New York Times

“Black Cemetery Loss Is A National Crisis” ZORA

“Of Blackness and Beauty” Longreads

“For A Writer of Color, Is Twitter More Valuable Than An MFA?” Pacific Standard