Anjali Enjeti
Los Angeles Times
Atlanta, GA, United States
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Past articles by Anjali:
Op-Ed: A big reason the South goes red? Gerrymandering and voter suppression
Every year Republican leaders enact more laws and rules that make it increasingly difficult for Black and other minority voters to cast ballots in the South. → Read More
Stacey Abrams’ Bold Ambition Proves There’s Hope for Politics
Stacey Abrams is inspiring other women of color to run for office and change the course of elections. → Read More
Reckoning With Georgia’s Increasing Suppression of Asian American Voters
As AAPI's become a more powerful, Democrat-leaning voting bloc, efforts to keep them from the polls intensify. → Read More
Book review of To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope by Jeanne Marie Laskas
“To Obama” traces the path of constituent letters from across the country to the White House. → Read More
‘I Might as Well Start a Fire’: Author and ‘Internet Yeller’ Ijeoma Oluo on Talking About Race
A Seattle-based writer and speaker, Oluo releases her highly anticipated debut book, So You Want to Talk About Race, this month. → Read More
Open Letter: An Open Letter to White People in Need of a Token Brown Person
Dear white friends, colleagues, and acquaintances — I’m currently on vacation from being your token brown person. Until further notice, I will no l... → Read More
'Nasty Women' Essay Collection Chucks Pantsuits for a More Inclusive Outfit
In Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America, editors Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding call for intersectional resistance in the age of Trump. → Read More
Can Protest Art Survive and Thrive During a Trump Presidency?
Will dire circumstances prevent art that fuels a resistance from catching on, or will artists simply be further galvanized to create? → Read More
Anjali Enjeti
Anjali Enjeti’s work has most recently appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Guardian, The New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, Pacific Standard, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at the Etowah Valley Writers Institute, the MFA program at Reinhardt University. → Read More
Jose Antonio Vargas talks citizenship for undocumented immigrants in a Trump world
A protester claiming to be an undocumented immigrant interrupted Saturday’s keynote address by Jose Antonio Vargas at the conference Facing Race. → Read More
Roxane Gay on President Trump: ‘I wish this was a nightmare and we could wake up’
In a 20-minute address, Gay told the room of mostly people of color that she—like many others—didn’t predict a Trump presidency. → Read More
Roxane Gay on President Trump: 'I wish this was a nightmare and we could wake up'
When author Roxane Gay stepped on stage, a hush fell over the room. Several days after Donald Trump was elected president, 2,000 organizers, educators, and other leaders from across America attended Facing Race, a three-day conference in Atlanta presented by Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation. → Read More
Ghosts of White People Past: Witnessing White Flight From an Asian Ethnoburb
If diversity is so important to liberal whites, why do they keep fleeing ethnically diverse suburbia? → Read More
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta review – love in the time of Biafra
Okparanta delivers a gripping novel about a young gay woman’s coming of age in Nigeria during the Nigerian civil war → Read More
Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta review – love in the time of Biafra
Okparanta delivers a gripping novel about a young gay woman’s coming of age in Nigeria during the Nigerian civil war → Read More
Finding minority writers isn't 'racial nepotism'. It's the cure for bigotry
A recent spat involving the Best American Poets 2015 anthology reveals the extent of problems around diversity and cultural appropriation in literature → Read More
Jenny Yang: when you're a little immigrant Asian girl in America, no one tells you to be a comedian
The Asian American comic is part of a new generation who are giving their community more visibility and turning everyday racism into laughs → Read More
D’Lo: 'I came out three times – as gay, as having a girlfriend and as trans'
A comic, rapper and poet who has picked up a role in the forthcoming Sense8, the queer transgender Tamil Sri Lankan-American’s aim is to ‘create meaning in everything I do’ → Read More
D’Lo: 'I came out three times – as gay, as having a girlfriend and as trans'
A comic, rapper and poet who has picked up a role in the forthcoming Sense8, the queer transgender Tamil Sri Lankan-American’s aim is to ‘create meaning in everything I do’ → Read More
Generation X's Parenting Problem
We cart our children to chess, robotics, baseball practice, ballet, cello, swimming lessons and birthday parties. Though they run our lives like lunatic ringmasters, we insist such activities make them well-rounded/social/intellectual/competitive/creative. → Read More