Hi! My debut book Super Sad Black Girl has a cover and a release date! This book has been many years in the making and I’m excited to share with you all. You can pre-order it through the link in my bio! 💜🌸💜
Bridgett Davis, director of Naked Acts, is making a new short HELGA! A film in which I also have a role! 🖤
What happens to an artist’s soul when their work is overlooked for decades, then suddenly found?
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this week, i asked lit mag editors how worried they are about finding AI in their slush piles and what they're doing about it @NYMag
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“The triumph of self-abjection serves as a soothing narrative hook in a certain species of female-survivorship tale,” Doreen St. Félix writes, about Aleshea Harris’s wise, energetic new film, “Is God Is.”
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The 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing Killed Four Young Black Girls. But They Weren’t the Only Victims of Racial Violence in the City That Day
Hours after the attack, a police officer shot 16-year-old Johnny Robinson in the back. Then, a white teenager mortally injured 13-year-old Virgil Ware as he rode on the handlebars of his brother’s bike
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New York state officials, citing shifting politics, have agreed to push back a long-awaited report on reparations for slavery to 2029
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fun fact, michael produced a predominantly black musical play based on the tale of Cinderella, called Sisterella back in 1996, the play won 8 NAACP awards, and was nominated 12 times :) it’s a very good musical in which i think everyone should watch !!!
https://t.co/fFVsFyAaJw via @lareviewofbooks “Jayne Cortez grew up listening to jazz. America’s only original art form was first created largely by Black people, first recorded & copyrighted by whites, and written about almost exclusively (like the Delta blues) by whites.”🎷✍🏾🎷
in addition to today being nora ephron’s birthday - it’s also 30 years of her singular commencement speech at wellesley - a text i return to time and time again