SELECTED ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS

“Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Limits of Representation” The New Yorker, 8/24/2020

“We Should Still Defund the Police” The New Yorker, 8/14/2020

“Until Black Women are Free, None Of Us Will Be Free” The New Yorker, 7/20/2020

“How Do We Change America?” The New Yorker, 6/8/2020

“Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People,” The New York Times, 5/29/2020

“The ‘American Way of Life’ is Shaping Up to Be a Battleground,” The New York Times, 5/14/2020

“Cancel the Rent​,” The New Yorker, 5/12/2020

“The Black Plague​,” The New Yorker, 4/16/2020

“Are We at the Start of a New Protest Movement?​” New York Times, 4/13/2020

“Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders​,” The New Yorker, 3/30/2020

“Why Sanders Isn’t Winning Over Black Voters​,” New York Times, 3/14/2020

“Joe Biden’s Success Shows We Gave Obama a Free Pass​,” New York Times, 2/5/2020

“Against Black Homeownership​,” Boston Review, 11/18/2019

“When the Dream of Owning a Home Became a Nightmare​,” New York Times, 10/19/2019

“Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?” Jacobin, 9/30/2019

“The Unbearable Emptiness of the Presidential Debates,” Jacobin, 7/1/2019

“Bernie Sanders’ Democratic Socialism Speech Was a Landmark,” Jacobin, 6/18/2019

“The Consequences of Forgetting,” Jacobin, 5/7/2019

“Saidiya Hartman’s “Beautiful Experiments,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 5/5/2019
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“What Michelle Obama Gets Wrong About Racism,” Boston Review, 3/13/2019

“Housing market racism persists despite ‘fair housing’ laws,” The Guardian, 1/24/2019

“Turning the Women’s March into a Mass Movement Was Never Going to Be Simple,” The Nation, 1/18/2019

“Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective,” Monthly Review, 1/1/2019

“Podcast Preview: Getting Emotional About Labor,” The Intercept, 12/20/2018

“Howard Zinn’s Life on the Frontlines,” Jacobin, 11/19/2018

“How Real Estate Segregated America,” Dissent, 10/2/2018

“We Really Still Need Howard Zinn?,” Literary Hub, 9/27/2018

“What would Martin Luther King's dream be in 2018?,” The Guardian, 4/5/2018

“Who is Martin Luther King, Jr. to Us, 50 Years Later?,” CNN, 4/5/2018

“International Women's Day's Socialist Roots,” Teen Vogue, 3/8/2018

“Martin Luther King's Radical Anticapitalism,” The Paris Review, 1/15/2018

“On the Urgency of Fighting Against the Racist Right Wing,” Bill Moyers, 10/26/2017

“The Boisterous Demands of Black Baltimore,” Haymarket Books, 9/1/2017

“The ‘Free Speech’ Hypocrisy of Right-Wing Media,” The New York Times, 8/14/2017

“No More Charlottesvilles,” Jacobin, 8/14/2017

“Think the Women's March wasn't radical Enough? Do something about it,” 
The Guardian, 1/24/2017

FEATURED VIDEOS

What We Can Learn From the Black Feminists of the Combahee River Collective​
​January 22, 2018​

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
​January 22, 2018​

​Keynote Address at Hampshire College Commencement
May 20, 2017
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In conversation with Naomi Klein
at Seattle's Neptune Theatre
​June 22, 2017

​Fighting Racism in Trump's America
​at Socialism 2017
July 8, 2017

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation TEDx Baltimore
February 2, 2016