Robin D.G. Kelley

May 23, 2024 | thenation.com | Sherene Razack |Gaye Theresa Johnson |Robin D.G. Kelley |Shannon Speed

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Apr 26, 2024 | poetryinamerica.org | Evie Shockley |Steven Allardi |Robin D.G. Kelley |LisaGay Hamilton

Billie Holiday’s haunting song “Strange Fruit” winds beneath the unsettling, satiric humor of Evie Shockley’s poem “you can say that again, billie.” Shockley, jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, historian Robin D.G. Kelley, actor LisaGay Hamilton, novelist Beverly Lowry, and radio host Nick Spitzer join Elisa New to discuss the history of racism, violence, and artistic tradition in the American south. Special thanks to our humanities advisers: Dr. Joshua Bennett; & Raquel Kennon.

Sep 5, 2023 | latimes.com | Robin D.G. Kelley

aja monet calls herself a surrealist blues poet. When I ask her for a definition, she replies, “A musician of the subversive imagination … a truth-telling magician.” Try as I might, I cannot come up with a more apt description of who she is, what she does and what she means. And if this seems too esoteric, just listen to her debut album, “when the poems do what they do,” and you’ll know exactly what she means.

May 14, 2023 | thenation.com | Lottie L. Joiner |Mychal Denzel Smith |Robin D.G. Kelley |Chris Lamb

Tyree Nichols called for his mother.1 The 29-year-old was on his way from work in Memphis when the police stopped him. The body-cam video showed a group of officers brutally beating him—kicking him, pepper-spraying him, even delighting in his pain. By the time his family got to him, he lay unrecognizable in a Memphis hospital, his face bruised and bloated.

Feb 25, 2023 | famouswritingroutines.com | Robin D.G. Kelley |Willa Cather |Harry Crews

Jonathan Eig is the author of five books, three of them New York Times best sellers. Ken Burns calls him a “master storyteller.” Joyce Carol Oates referred to his book, Ali: A Life, as “an epic of a biography.”Eig was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He is a former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal. His books have been published in more than a dozen languages.