2021
What Made the Civil Rights Movement Successful--And What Came Next
Review of the books Black Magic, by Chad Sanders, and The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights, by Thomas C. Holt
The Washington Post
February 21, 2021
The Home of Two Cliffs
Personal essay
The Threepenny Review
Spring 2021
The Past and the Iceberg: Black Horror Films, Then and Now
Cineaste
Spring 2021 (forthcoming)
Blues for Mister Stanley
A remembrance of Stanley Crouch
American Book Review
Winter 2021 (forthcoming)
Fear in the Gut, Change in the Air
Review of the film One Night in Miami
Times Literary Supplement
January 22, 2021
Masked Men
Essay on the storming of the U.S. Capitol
Commonweal
January 18, 2021
Time Is Precious: A Conversation with Clifford Thompson
Interviewed by the writer Julie Marie Wade for…
The Rumpus
January 4, 2021
Fictional Blues: Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White
Book review
Los Angeles Review of Books
January 4, 2021
The Four Phases of Malcolm X
Review of The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Times Literary Supplement
January, 1, 2021