Her new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction examines the ways in which Black Americans formed networks of self-reliance in their pursuit of emancipation.
A film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s novel dramatizes the mercurial and sometimes dangerous consequences of a person’s performance of self in the public.
In Just Us, the poet offers a searing assessment of racism and loneliness in today’s America. But while she’s pessimistic about the present, she’s also hopeful about the future.