Julia Fierro: Only People Can Let Us Down
June 7, 2017
The novelist on her struggle with mental health, the limits of empathy, and the necessity of suffering.
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A Cross-generational Curse
May 30, 2017
Exploring the Ugandan imagination in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s debut novel.
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Michael Eric Dyson: Challenging Lethal Ignorance
April 24, 2017
The author and public intellectual on his sermon to white America.
Interview
Kameelah Rasheed: Who Will Survive in America?
March 6, 2017
The visual artist on “the stutter” in history, strategic opacity, and Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter.
Interview
Dr. Sandra Soo-Jin Lee: Toward a More Precise Genetics
February 27, 2017
The medical anthropologist on the imperative to move beyond race in genetic research and the explanatory power of life experience and inequality.
Review
Who Is You, Man?
February 24, 2017
The black masks of Frank Ocean, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W.E.B. Du Bois in Barry Jenkins' Moonlight.
Review
Against La La Land
February 23, 2017
Damien Chazelle’s so-called homage to movie musicals carelessly pillages a fraught form, reifying the tradition’s latent racism, classism, and sexism.
Interview
Vivek Shraya: Beyond Margins
January 9, 2017
The artist, writer, filmmaker, and singer on transcending binaries to create works of empathy and protest.