Imani Radney

Feb 6, 2025 | publicbooks.org | Sharon Marcus |Ryan Boyd |Imani Radney

Sharon Marcus, author of The Drama of Celebrity (Princeton University Press, 2019), talks with author, poet, and scholar Deborah Paredez about American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous (Norton 2024), hailed by Time as one of the 100 must-read books of the year. Sharon Marcus (SM): We are here to talk about your recent book, American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous, which discusses Rita Moreno, Tina Turner, Venus and Serena Williams, and many others.

Jan 7, 2025 | publicbooks.org | Dan Berger |Imani Radney

The criminal legal system can often seem monolithic in its trends toward repression and social control. Yet attending to the breadth of institutions comprising the legal system, their specific structure and purpose, is necessary to understanding what the system does and how. Take the police. Much of the focus in our conversations of police violence has understandably concentrated on the urban police department.

Nov 13, 2024 | publicbooks.org | Robert L. Tsai |Imani Radney

On April 1, 1992, the Senate Judiciary Committee convened to decide whether Alabama Assistant Attorney General Ed Carnes should become a judge on the US Court of Appeals. For 11 of the 16 years he worked as a government lawyer, Carnes had run the state’s unit that litigated cases of capital punishment. Usually Supreme Court nominations generate the most attention.