Danielle Jackson
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New York, United States
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‘People Can Become Houses’
In her debut memoir, Sarah Broom builds her "obsession" with her family home -- destroyed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina -- into a story of how families decide who they are, how they got here, and how they reconstruct themselves over and over again. → Read More
Toni Morrison, 1931-2019
An elegy and reading list for Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who died Monday, August 5, 2019. → Read More
Faith and Reproductive Justice Are Not in Opposition
Black women face outsized threats if Roe v. Wade is overturned. → Read More
What to Read After ‘Leaving Neverland’
A list of longreads to make sense of ‘Leaving Neverland.’ → Read More
The Precarity of Everything: On Millennial (Blacks and) Blues
Reniqua Allen -- the author of It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America -- on Black millennials, millennial burnout, and hope in a time of uncertainty. → Read More
Theatre of Wokeness
Are we having a surface-level reckoning? → Read More
Memory and the Lost Cause
An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life. → Read More
25 Years of Vibe Magazine
From its first issue in 1993, Vibe magazine reflected the "multicultural mainstream." → Read More
Twelve Longreads for Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin was born March 25, 1942 and died Thursday, August 16, 2018. → Read More
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Was Born Today in 1862
Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born July 16, 1862. → Read More
On Mourning, Learning a More Sober Fandom, and Letting Go
The death of popular rapper XXXTentaction raises questions of ethical consumption. → Read More
Series Exhumes Out-of-Print Books by Black Authors
“The Blackist,” a column for Catapult’s magazine, introduces audiences to out-of-print novels written by black authors. → Read More
Why Beyoncé Placed HBCU’s at the Center of American Life
The singer's latest performance helps expand the possibilities of what it looks like to be a black thinking person. → Read More
A Kendrick Lamar Syllabus
The Pulitzer Prize-winner's work always feels honest, as writers have found when they dive deep into his literary influences. → Read More
Could Paulette Jordan of Idaho Become the Country’s First Native American Governor?
In Idaho, former state representative Paulette Jordan faces a tough race to become the nation's first Native American governor. → Read More
Black Women’s Maternal Mortality Rates in the US are Staggeringly High
As part of ProPublica and NPR’s series on maternal care in the U.S., Nina Martin and Renee Montagne tell the devastating story of Shalon Irving, a vibrant 36-year-old epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who died three weeks after the birth of her daughter earlier this year. Irving was educated, insured, and… → Read More
Jay-Z Opens Up About Race in America, Therapy, and ‘4:44’
The hip-hop artist sits down for a wide-ranging interview with NYT executive editor Dean Baquet. → Read More
On the Contentious Borders of the American South
Zandria F. Robinson narrates her coming of age Memphis while examining contemporary southernness. → Read More
Bronx Rapper Cardi B Became a Pop Sensation, But Will She Make it Last?
Understanding what the rapper means to her audience, beyond the flash of celebrity. → Read More
Brit Bennett Reflects on Living the Past Year in “Trump Time”
How the whiplash-like event of Trump following the nation's first black president has "compressed time." → Read More