Sharing my latest: My New York Times Books
review of Lesa Cline-Ransome new novel in verse, 'One Big Open Sky.'

A Child’s-Eye View of One Black Family’s Covered-Wagon Journey nytimes.com/2024/04/12/boo…

In other country music news,
Country star Morgan Wallen arrested, accused of throwing chair from bar roof wapo.st/4cKPFl3

Just sayin'. #NCAAWBB #southcarolinavsIowa

Still very much undefeated. #southcarolinavsIowa #NCAAWBB

Some of you asked, and a few of us answered. Here's our not-so-hot take on BEYONCÉ’s Act II, 'Cowboy Carter,' a roundtable/hoedown with me, and my New York Times Arts colleagues Wesley Morris, Ben Sisario, and Lindsay Zoladz.

nytimes.com/2024/04/02/art…

Still undefeated.

Sexual violence ‘largely unpunished’ in Haiti, UN says
cnn.com/2024/03/28/ame…

These progressives were right about Gaza. Now it could cost them their seats. wapo.st/3TAy7PO

The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child Marriage and Hysterectomies: Hysterectomies keep them working, undistracted by doctor visits or the hardship of menstruating in a field with no access to running water, toilets or shelter. nytimes.com/2024/03/24/wor…

Always so necessary and prescient. 'We are in the midst of a radical abandonment of a compact that the civil rights movement forged, a shared understanding that racial inequality is harmful to democracy.' - Ida Bae Wells nytimes.com/2024/03/13/mag…

Just dropping a few bars from my profile of regina aminu for Harper’s BAZAAR

Vision: samira nasr
Editir: Stephen Mooallem
Photography: LuisAlbertoRodríguez
harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-t…

When African Women Are Raped, Where Is the Outrage? nytimes.com/2024/03/20/opi…

Thank you so very, very much.

I'm forever grateful to have had the opportunity to write this profile on Regina King for the April cover of Harper’s BAZAAR
Regina’s Resolve:
Regina King on learning to live with loss, the legacy of Shirley Chisholm, and finding a way forward

harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-t…

Missouri law prevents divorce during pregnancy – even in cases of violence theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

Can't wait!

Interesting article, & am curious why the one pop artist who keeps innovating with age, Beyoncé, was unmentioned. I wonder how she fits in or redefines the terms of this debate.
Aging Pop Stars And The Struggle To Keep Making Popular Music by Jem Aswad variety.com/2024/music/opi…

In recognition of the 4th anniversary of Breonna Taylor’s death and in honor of her life, my sister, Scheherazade Tillet published this beautiful tribute photo essay.

‘Life has not stopped for grief’: the photographer holding Breonna Taylor’s memory theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

Lives Ended in Gaza nytimes.com/interactive/20…