Select Features, Op-Eds & Short Essays

• “Why Kamala Harris’ Promises on Abortion Matter So Much to Black Women,” TIME, September 19, 2024.

• “September 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us,” Ms. Magazine, September 4, 2024.

• Featured Guest: “Hannah Mary Tabbs” (Radio 4/BBC: “Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley”; Aired in UK June 15, 2022).
  
  

• “ The historical truth about women burned at the stake in America? Most were Black,” The Washington Post, February 25, 2022.
  
  

  
  

• Comment In: “Meghan and Harry’s Explosive Interview Reveals How the Royal Family’s Racism Lingers,” by Ashley Fetters and Jennifer Hassan, The Washington Post, March 8, 2021.

• Featured Guest: “Black History Month: A Black Women’s History of the United States” (KPFA Radio 94.1 FM, February 2021).
  
  

  
  

• Featured Guest: “Ancestral Power” (Futuro Media Group: In The Thick, Hosts: Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela; Aired July 4, 2020).

  
  

• Comment In: “Burning Down the House,” by Michelle Ruiz, Vanity Fair, February 27, 2020.
  
  

  
  

• “The Oscars Are Over. Now What?,” HuffPost, February 10, 2020.

  
  

• “Meghan Markle’s choice of Independence and Self-Respect Reflects Legacies of Black WOmen’s Resistance,” The Glow Up, The Root, January 19, 2020.

  
  

• Featured in “Meghan Markle proved being a princess isn’t what it’s cracked up to be — especially if you’re black,” By Elizabeth Wellington, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 2020.

  
  

• Featured in “MEGHAN MARKLE’S CHALLENGES AS A BLACK BRITISH ROYAL,” iheartradio, Niagra in the Morning with Tim Dennis, January 15, 2020.

  
  

• Comment in “From mammy to Ma: Hollywood’s Favourtite Racist Stereotype,” By Ellen E. Jones, BBC News - Culture, May 31, 2019.

  
  

• "True Price of the Bland Settlement and Black Women's Custodial Deaths in Texas," The Huffington Post, September 30, 2016.

  
  

• "Gross: Justice System Holds No Justice for Black Women," in The Houston Chronicle, September 14, 2016.

  
  

• "Black Queer Woman's Play Reveals Global Biases in Criminal Justice," in The Huffington Post, July 18, 2016.

  
  

• "Poor treatment of black girls is a stain on America's soul," in The Dallas Morning News, May 18, 2016.
  
  

  
  

• "Hannah Mary Tabbs: A black murderess in racist 1800s US," in BBC News, February 22, 2016.

“So let’s talk about a part of our history almost no one knows. Of the approximately 25 women and girls convicted of witchcraft in the 13 colonies between 1648 and 1692, none met their end strapped to a stake; they were all hanged. And while it’s true that women of this period were burned at the stake as a form of capital punishment, most of them were not White — they were Black.”— “The historical truth about women burned at the stake in America? Most were Black.” The Washington Post, February 22, 2022.