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I'm going to post a few links to works of mine that you might enjoy while staying indoors.
I'm proud of everything I write, but these might be some of the most fun--and important--pieces I have written over the years.
I'm going to post a few links to works of mine that you might enjoy while staying indoors.
I'm proud of everything I write, but these might be some of the most fun--and important--pieces I have written over the years.
I wrote this piece for @TheAtlantic: it always tickles me when I see Star Trek fans retweeting this piece every once in a while. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/star-trek-deep-space-nine-past-tense/542280/
Here's my ode to Captain Picard for @popula--and might be of special interest if you've just finished #StarTrekPicard (kinda think it holds up even more now): https://popula.com/2018/08/20/continuing-mission/
Here's one of the pieces I've written for @thenation, and it might be my favorite--wrestling with the intellectual legacy of Toni Morrison: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/toni-morrison-playing-in-the-dark-essays-obit/
I've also had fun writing for @DissentMag over the years, and here's a piece both commemorating the passage of the 14th Amendment and the need for more reforms within the legacy of the Reconstruction era: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-urgency-of-a-third-reconstruction
Writing for @jacobinmag has also been a fun experience, and one of the pieces I've written for them in the last few years is about the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.--something I write about a great deal. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/04/martin-luther-king-assassination-fiftieth-anniversary
And I've written for several years for @Ideas_History, and I've been able to explore a lot of ideas, theories, and thoughts about African American intellectual history.
I just thought about this piece from 2014. Sadly, more poignant now than ever. https://s-usih.org/2014/08/a-collective-sadness-forty-years-later/
I just thought about this piece from 2014. Sadly, more poignant now than ever. https://s-usih.org/2014/08/a-collective-sadness-forty-years-later/
I've done a handful of guest posts for @BlkPerspectives, and this might be my favorite: a review of the edited collection, New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition.
https://www.aaihs.org/the-rich-legacy-of-african-american-political-and-intellectual-history/
https://www.aaihs.org/the-rich-legacy-of-african-american-political-and-intellectual-history/
My agony over being an Atlanta sports fan is well-documented. But nowhere do I lay it out with such historical and cultural context as I do here--written in the aftermath of *that* game for @scalawagmag: https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2017/06/atlanta-and-the-politics-of-the-losing-south/
And, finally, my work on the Big Apple dance, 1930s Columbia South Carolina, and the rich African American cultural legacy of Gullah-Geechee society for @oxfordamerican: https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1856-set-the-country-stamping
Hopefully one of these you'll enjoy. In a sense, all these links are me down to my basic components: history, sports, Star Trek, the South, Black America.
Me, in a nutshell. Enjoy.
Me, in a nutshell. Enjoy.
