Slavery
Confederate Monuments
A review of “Monuments,” an exhibition of vandalized Confederate monuments and responses by nineteen contemporary artists in Los Angeles (“Reconstructed,” The New Yorker)Confederate Monuments
Kerry James Marshall
A short profile of the painter ahead of his first U.K. retrospective, at the Royal Academy. (“Grand Style,” RA Magazine)Kerry James Marshall
Slave Ship Wrecks
A feature on the Slave Wrecks Project, whose marine archaeologists work with communities across the African diaspora. I dove with them to the wreck of the Camargo, Brazil’s last known slave ship. (“The Sunken Place,” The New Yorker)Slave Ship Wrecks
An Interview with Lonnie Bunch
The Secretary of the Smithsonian discusses his plans to build two new museums and protect the institution from political interference. (The New Yorker)An Interview with Lonnie Bunch
Abdulrazak Gurnah
A review-essay about the Tanzanian Nobel laureate and his novel Afterlives.” (“Children of the Coast,” The New Yorker)Abdulrazak Gurnah
Sisterhood and Slavery in “The Woman King”
A critique of Viola Davis’s film about Dahomey’s all-women warriors. (The New Yorker)Sisterhood and Slavery in “The Woman King”
Clint Smith’s “How the World is Passed”
A review of his book on the contemporary commemoration of slavery. (The New York Times Book Review)Clint Smith’s “How the World is Passed”