Published Work

Selected Published Articles

CNN Style, “Zanele Muholi captures powerful portraits of South Africa’s LGBTQ community,” June 2019

CNN Style, “Andres Serrano exhibition showcases 1,000 Trump objects from colognes to steaks,” April 2019

New York Times Lens, “Updating Norman Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’ for a Modern, Diverse America,” March 2019

VICE, “Photographer Akintola Hanif’s Remarkable Images Celebrate Black Love and Community”, February 2019

New York Times Lens, “From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter: Honoring Black Mothers Who Lost Their Sons”, January 2019

New York Times Lens, “Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply”, December 2018

New York Times Lens, “Illuminating Black Joy, Black Love and Resistance In Harlem”, November 2018

New York Times Lens, “How Photography Has Shaped Perceptions of African Women”, November 2018

New York Times Lens, “40 Years of Hip-Hop Photos”, October 2018

Hyperallergic, “A Performance Artist’s Tests of Endurance Honor the Black Female Body”, June 2018

New York Times Magazine, “Two New Shows That Celebrate Black Women Artists”, March 2017

New York Times Lens, “A Witness to Youth Culture in Burkina Faso”, January 2017

New York Times Lens, “A Difficult Harvest for America’s Black Farmers”, October 2016

New York Times Lens, “Malick Sidibé: Creative Force of African Culture”, April 2016

New York Times Lens, “Amid Bay Area Gentrification, One Man’s Three-Year Struggle”, January 2016

New York Times Lens, “Japanese Americans Imprisoned but Unbowed During WWII”, December 2015

New York Times Lens, “Sugar, Slavery and Scotland: A Sweet Forgetting”, October 2015

New York Times Lens, “Chester Higgins’s Homage to Ethiopia”, May 2015

International Review of African American Art, “Derrick Adams Brings a Practical Edge to Conceptual Art”, April 2015

New York Times Lens, “Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta”, March 2015

New York Times, Metropolitan Section, “Fear and Pride”, October 2014

New York Times Lens, “Gay Africans Seeking Asylum in New York”, October 2014

Ebony.com, “40 Years of ‘for colored girls…’: Loving Ntozake Shange Fiercely”, October 2014

International Review of African American Art, “My Country Has No Name”, on artist Toyin Odutola, August 2013

HYCIDE Magazine, “Cocaine Ballet” on dancer/performance artist Storyboard P, October 2012

HYCIDE Magazine, “Highpoints” on photographer Chester Higgins, Jr., August 2012

Books & Publications

A Womb of Violet:An Anthology

Featured: Newark Women: From Suffragettes to the State House
Barbara Kukla

Featured: MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora
Afterword: fayemi shakur on Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

Featured: Dark Girls
Bill Duke, Shelia P. Moses, Barron Claiborne

Featured: The Politics of Intersectionality: Urban Black Women and Resistance
Dr. Zenzele Isoke

Editor and Contributing Writer: HYCIDE Magazine Collection

Editor: OPEN: an erotica journal
a collection of short stories, poetry and photography