Joyzel Acevedo
Jezebel
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Joyzel:
The Powerful Civil Rights Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer
She joined the movement at 44 and helped secure the Voting Rights Act of 1965 → Read More
Inside the True Story of the Escape Tunnel Beneath the Berlin Wall
Inside the True Story of the Escape Tunnel Beneath the Berlin Wall → Read More
The Tulsa Race Massacre, as Told by the Great-Granddaughter of a Survivor
Anneliese M. Bruner speaks about the atrocities her great-grandmother, journalist Mary E. Jones Parrish, experienced and wrote in her book The Nation Must Awake → Read More
Don't Call Them "Riots," Says Historian Elizabeth Hinton—They're Black Rebellions
In her new book "America on Fire," Hinton chronicles decades of Black protest, from 1960s Harlem all the way to George Floyd → Read More
Someone Please Tell Us Who Gave the Greenlight to Man vs. Beast, And Why
A look at the most absurd, ridiculous, and wild competition television show that pitted men against animals → Read More
Director Taylor Garron Wants to Let People of Color Be Mediocre on Screen
"Everyone deserves the right to be represented as like, the truly average people that most of us are" → Read More
How Three Unlikely Friends Worked Together to Rechart the Course of Abolition and Suffrage
In Rummaging Through the Attic, we interview nonfiction authors whose books explore fascinating moments, characters, and stories in history. For this episode we spoke with Dorothy Wickenden, author of The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights, a nonfiction work that profiles the friendship of three women and their fight to upend the racist and sexist societal norms… → Read More
The Trailblazing Women Who Created Television as We Know It
In Jezebel’s newest series Rummaging Through the Attic, we interview nonfiction authors whose books explore fascinating moments, characters, and stories in history. For this episode we spoke with Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, author of When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today, a nonfiction work that explores how four women… → Read More
The Forgotten Women Reporters Who Changed the Face of Journalism
In Jezebel’s newest series Rummaging Through the Attic, we interview nonfiction authors whose books explore fascinating moments, characters, and stories in history. For this episode we spoke with Kim Todd, author of Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters,” a nonfiction work that reveals America’s pioneering women journalists whose undercover reporting in the late… → Read More
The Oscars Were Full of 'Firsts'
This year’s Academy Awards were necessarily different than years past and studded quite liberally with “firsts.” This is the first time the awards were hosted at a train station (and likely the last). It’s also the first time in a long time where the awards show felt manageable, small, and shabbier than years past. Sticking to strict pandemic protocols for safely filming, the awards ceremony was… → Read More
How Octavia Butler, the Person, Created Octavia Butler, the Writer
In Jezebel’s newest series Rummaging Through the Attic, we interview nonfiction authors whose books explore fascinating moments, characters, and stories in history. For this episode we spoke with Lynell George, author of A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler, a biography that delves into the creative process and life of legendary science-fiction writer Octavia… → Read More
The Worst (And Not-So-Bad) Video Game Movies
More often than not, video game movies take something we know, love, and obsess over and transform it into an unrecognizable monster at worst—or a forgettable, underwhelming experience at best. Happy endings in the video game movie genre can be hard to come by. → Read More
The Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells, As Told by Her Great-Granddaughter
In Jezebel’s newest series Rummaging Through the Attic, we interview nonfiction authors whose books explore fascinating moments, characters, and stories in history. For this episode, we spoke with Michelle Duster, author of Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells, a biography of one of the most influential Black women journalists, suffragettes, and activists in the… → Read More
The Women Who Changed the Way We Look at War
In Jezebel’s newest series Rummaging Through the Attic, we interview nonfiction authors whose books explore fascinating moments, characters, and stories in history. For this episode we spoke with Elizabeth Becker, author of You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War. Her work profiles the impact of three women journalists and their work during the Vietnam War. → Read More
Brilliant Singer/Songwriter Sevyn Streeter Explains How She's 'Evolving Backwards'
Singer-songwriter Sevyn Streeter has been in the music business for more than two-thirds of her life: From competing at Showtime at the Apollo when she was just 10 years old, to performing as one part of the music group TG4, to writing songs for artists like Kelly Rowland, Alicia Keys and Ariana Grande—while also writing, recording and releasing her own music—Streeter’s experience and identity… → Read More
Inside the World War I Hospital Run and Staffed by Women
In Jezebel’s newest series Rummaging Through the Attic, we interview nonfiction authors whose books explore fascinating moments, characters, and stories in history. For this episode we spoke with Wendy Moore, author of No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I, a work highlighting the historic women-run Endell Street Military… → Read More
Celebrity Breakups in 2020 That Proved Love Is Dead
Is anyone genuinely shocked to find out that love is still dead in the year of our lord 2020? Probably not. In a period when partnered people were suddenly spending way more time with their live-in significant others than they probably ever expected to, the relationships of normies and Hollywood couples were tested—and many, sadly, didn’t make it. In this sequel to our Weird Couples of 2020… → Read More
Exploring the First Few Zones of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is the newest expansion in the online WoW universe—its eighth, to be exact. It picks up right where the previous expansion, Battle for Azeroth, left off: Dark Lady Sylvanas Windrunner, who was originally a High Elf, then an Undead, then the Queen of the Undead, then the Warchief of the Horde, then not, becomes a full-fledged villain who betrays the Alliance,… → Read More
A New Horizon of Animal Crossing Conspiracy Theories
Look, we already know how great, amazing, blissful, etc. life in the Animal Crossing universe can be, especially when you compare it to this mess of a simulation some say is reality. → Read More
A Presidential Affair: The Secret, Salacious Sex Scandals of U.S. Presidents
In Jezebel’s newest series, Rummaging Through the Attic, we interview nonfiction authors whose books explore fascinating moments, characters, and stories in history. For this episode we spoke with Eleanor Herman, author of Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House, a work that delves into the salacious sex scandals and love affairs of U.S. presidents past and… → Read More