Selected Works
Personal Essays
LENNY LETTER How I Overcame My Anger as a Black Writer Online
BUZZFEED How Therapy Doesn't Make Me A Bad Christian
FUSION Why I Got A Labiaplasty in My 20s
CATAPULT A Love Letter to Harlem
LITERARY HUB Writing While Black
TALKING POINTS MEMO The Psychic Toll of Reading The News While Black
ELECTRIC LITERATURE The Struggle To Be A Good Critic
FOR HARRIET What A Four-Year-Old Taught Me About Police Brutality
THE HUFFINGTON POST The Gift of Love and Memory
Reportage
BUZZFEED Who Gets To Take Part In The Menstruation Conversation?
RACKED The Quiet Racism of Instagram Filters
THE ATLANTIC Too Many Kids
Profiles and Interviews
VULTURE (NEW YORK MAGAZINE) Gucci Mane Got Out of Prison and Wrote a Book. Here's How It All Happened.
COSMOPOLITAN Issa Rae Talks Insecure, Sex Scenes, and Black Female Friendship
ROLLING STONE Patricia Lockwood: The Poet Laureate of Twitter
THE CUT (NEW YORK MAGAZINE) Claudia Rankine on Black Glamour
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS Doubt and Shame in "The Mothers": An Interview with Brit Bennett
VICE 'Luke Cage' Is The 'Hip-Hop Comic Book Show' You've Been Waiting For
Two Glasses of Sangria with Comedian Phoebe Robinson
THE TOAST Writing, Trans Identity, Race, and All the Poetry: An Interview With Meredith Talusan
Literary Journalism and Analysis
NYT BOOK REVIEW 'Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?': Fiction by an Author Who Died Young
THE NEW REPUBLIC Is Trump Ruining Book Sales?
The Old Problems of "New People"
NYLON How One Women Saved The Home of Legendary Poet, Langston Hughes
HAZLITT Reading Bored, White Girls
ELLE Toni Morrison: Writing Is a Dangerous Pursuit
THE NEW YORKER The Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset
Black Women Writers and The Secret Space of Diaries
POETS & WRITERS Activating Public Space With Books
Kimbilio Nurtures Black Writers
PACIFIC STANDARD For a Writer of Color, Is Twitter More Valuable Than an MFA?
COMING OF FAITH Why aren't little black girls allowed to be innocent?
BOOK RIOT (selected pieces) Kafka and the Black Lives Matter Movement
The Genius Behind Nameless Protagonists
THE TOAST Why Black Men and Women Critique Each Other
Loving The Blackness of Leona Cassiani
Sports and Pop Culture
PITCHFORK Azealia Banks and the Double Standard of Mental Illness
THE ATLANTIC Why the Debate Over Nate Parker Is So Complex
ROLLING STONE Colin Kaepernick's National Anthem Protest Tells Us About America
Usain Bolt: What The World's Fastest Man Means to Jamaica
ESPN The unconventional legacy of Dominique Dawes
ELLE Solange's "A Seat at the Table" Is Not for Everyone
'Lemonade' Is About Black Women Healing Themselves and Each Other
COSMOPOLITAN Orange Is The New Black Season 4 Review
VOGUE 90 Years Later, the Radical Power of Josephine Baker's Banana Skirt
SEVEN SCRIBES Kendrick Lamar: Shapeshifter
Op-Ed
THE NEW YORK TIMES (Op-Ed Section) How America Fails Black Girls
TEEN VOGUE Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Is Getting Criticized for Her Comments on Transgender Women
The Important Conversation We Should Be Having About The San Bernardino Shooting
THE NEW YORK TIMES (Room for Debate) A Conflict of Faith and Self
Appreciate the History of Names to Root out Stigma
THE DAILY DOT It's OK if the next James Bond is another white guy
Why Miley Cyrus shouldn't tell Nicki Minaj how to talk about race
Josh Duggar is a cheater and a liar—but here's the sad reason his wife won't leave
The important conversation about Sandra Bland's death no one is having
QUARTZ Beyoncé’s powerful Super Bowl act was targeted and tailored specifically to black Americans
Society has to stop treating celebrity kids like sexually mature adults
Dylann Storm Roof and the conversation white America should actually be having about race
To Rachel Dolezal: A white NAACP president could have been a powerful thing
Is the camera phone the only way for black men in America to get justice?
Does Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Have a white savior complex?
This year’s Oscars prove only white actors get to be ordinary
THE GUARDIAN I'm a black gentrifier in Harlem - and it's not a good feeling
The 7 black women on magazine covers in September showcase our greatness
Mo'Nique Won An Oscar Then Got 'Blackballed'. Of course it's about race.
THE TOAST Bree Newsome and the Myth of the Strong Black Woman
EBONY The Other Side of Privilege
FICTION
NAT. BRUT ASHA
LITERARY ORPHANS Fade