Syreeta McFadden is a freelance writer and columnist for The Guardian US. She is the managing editor of the online literary magazine, Union Station.

The Fierce Urgency of Nina Simone Now

The Fierce Urgency of Nina Simone Now The Fierce Urgency of Nina Simone Now

Perhaps her real audience was not her contemporaries in the civil rights generation, but their grandchildren.

Jul 2, 2015 / Syreeta McFadden

Jacob Lawrence’s Art as Journalism

Jacob Lawrence’s Art as Journalism Jacob Lawrence’s Art as Journalism

The painter’s migration series was a first draft of history for one of black America’s defining moments.

May 8, 2015 / Syreeta McFadden

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