2021
The Black Picture Show
Review of the books The Content of Our Caricature:
African American Comic Art and Political Belonging
and Invisible Men: The Trailblazing Black Artists of Comic Books
The Common Reader
August 4, 2021
When Black Was Born
Review of the music documentary Summer of Soul
Commonweal
August 1, 2021
Six poems: “Robin Scott,” “Stingray,” “My Other Grandparents,”
“My Brother’s Apartment,” “A Walk with Her,” and “9/11 Poem”
Subnivean
Issue 03
June 2021
Root Response—Letter from New Orleans
Essay on forgiveness among African-Americans
Commonweal
June 19, 2021
Ming Yang Fu, Or, Seeking Words at Age Thirteen
Personal essay
Chicago Quarterly Review
Volume 33, 2021
There’re People Living Under Here
Review of the art exhibition Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,
at the New Museum in New York City
Commonweal
April 26, 2021
The View from Beneath
Review of Richard Wright’s novel The Man Who Lived Underground
Wall Street Journal
April 24, 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
Blues for Mister Stanley
A remembrance of Stanley Crouch
American Book Review
Winter 2021
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