Ta-Nehisi Coates, Comic Book Nerd
Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of “The Case for Reparations,” Between the World and Me, and, most recently, “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” will continue highlighting the societal...
View ArticleAfrofuturism and Optimism in Black Panther
At Lit Hub, Aaron Counts looks at writing afrofuturism in comics. Specifically, Counts discusses the upcoming run of Marvel’s Black Panther series by Ta-Nehisi Coates and how Coates’s nonfiction could...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates’s Poetic Voice
All the poetry I have goes other places. It’s still with me. When I think about black lives, or the Black Panther comic, I’m thinking in a poetic sense.In an interview at The Poetry Foundation,...
View ArticleWelcome to the World of Wakanda
Last week, the exciting news came out that Roxane Gay will be joining Ta-Nehisi Coates as a co-writer on the second Black Panther series, World of Wakanda. The New York Times looks at how the series...
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The Rumpus Interview with Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is a force. In the past six years, she has had five major works come out—a novel (An Untamed State), two short story collections (Ayiti and Difficult Women), an essay collection (Bad...
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Yona Harvey
Yona Harvey has the best laugh. It’s impossibly high-pitched, and if you were thinking about not laughing at what she’s laughing at, you can forget about it. We’re both fresh from AWP, and she is—we...
View ArticleLook at How the Bullets Have Missed
It is difficult to write a great antagonist. To achieve balance, one would need to be both powerful enough to pose a considerable threat to our heroes, as well as relatable enough to make us doubt if...
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Black Panther and Strong Women
Like a lot of American women growing up in the fat free-soaked 1990s, I put myself on my first diet when I was in elementary school. Even though I’m black, I’ve assumed a role in the general American...
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Stories without Veils: Talking with Athena Dixon
“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.” – Miles Davis Athena Dixon’s debut memoir-in-essays, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, is a nostalgic, compelling journey of...
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