Rigoberto González Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
English Professor Rigoberto González's recent book, What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood, is…
In Her First Solo Museum Show, Jordan Casteel’s Humanizing Portraits Get Even Closer
In 2012, Jordan Casteel and her mother drove across the country from Denver to New Haven, Connecticut, with a wooden…
Salamishah Tillet for The New York Times: #MeToo Has Finally Returned To Black Girls
“I didn’t value the accusers’ stories because they were black women,” Chance the Rapper said in the final episode of…
Kimi Takesue Receives Competitive Grant for Upcoming Documentary
Kimi Takesue, an associate professor of video in the Arts, Culture and Media department, received a highly competitive…
Sadia Abbas for Tank Magazine: on the Refugee Situation in Greece
English Professor Sadia Abbas writes on the economic and refugee situation in Greece for Tank Magazine's 2018 Travel…
Mary Rizzo for The Metropole: When Baltimore was Hollywood East
When Baltimore was Hollywood East: Racial Exclusion and Cultural Development in the 1970s It was intended to be the…
Zahra Ali for the Washington Post: What headlines missed about the cause of recent murders in Iraq
This year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to 25-year-old Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman from Iraq, and Congolese…
Salamishah Tillet for the New York Review of Books: An Interview with Alice Walker
Of her more than thirty-five books, Alice Walker’s Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart, published this week, is her first…