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A Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight

  • Tatiana Johnson-Boria
  • September 17, 2021
In Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.
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Accidental Altars

  • Indu Subaiya
  • July 19, 2021
Choose, the specter points in opposite directions.
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Word by Word, Brick by Brick: Christine Larusso’s There Will Be No More Daughters

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • May 21, 2021
In other words: Larusso does some remarkably heavy lifting in this book.
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Both Trauma and Sin: Elizabeth Miki Brina’s Speak, Okinawa

  • Miyako Pleines
  • May 12, 2021
Speak, Okinawa is masterful at describing the internal dissonance that mixed race children can feel.
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Belonging Is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton

  • Donna Hemans
  • March 1, 2021
Georgina Lawton discusses her debut memoir, RACELESS.
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An East African Girl and Her White Troubadours

  • Zebib K. A.
  • June 6, 2019
I was a lonely, dreamy, occasionally silly girl.
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By Accident and On Purpose: A Conversation with Leesa Cross-Smith

  • Monet Patrice Thomas
  • March 26, 2018
Leesa Cross-Smith discusses her debut novel, Whiskey & Ribbons, what it takes to return to a story after a long time away, and how her faith influences her writing.
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Our Secret Family Legacy

  • Ashlie Kauffman
  • August 31, 2016
When I was young, she would tell me we were part Navajo.
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A Ringing in Your Ears That Would Disappear by Morning

  • Natasha Kochicheril Moni
  • July 7, 2016
Soon, you would discover the local isle of misfits. Every town has at least one if you do some digging. Yours was The Boathouse.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Desiree Cooper

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • March 25, 2016
Desiree Cooper discusses her debut collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother, what mother-writers need, and why motherhood is the only story she’s ever told.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: A Roundtable on Writing, Editing, and Race

  • The Writer-Editor Coalition
  • March 6, 2016
With Lisa Factora-Borchers, Patrice Gopo, Jennifer Niesslein, Tamiko Nimura, and Deesha Philyaw.
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The Double Agency of Will Smith in Sci-Fi

  • Justin Phillip Reed
  • March 3, 2016
Smith’s characters act as witnesses for the rehabilitated offender, the white-supremacist nation-state.
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