BOOKS

2013
The Hockaday School:
An Anthology of Voices and Views, 1913-2013
Co-editor (Austin: Pentagram)

Winner of the Silver Circle of Excellence Award

Drawing on archival materials from SMU’s DeGolyer Library to Yale’s Beinecke, the anthology is an archive of letters, newspaper clippings, speeches, photographs, poetry, and essays that chronicle the founding and growth of the nation’s largest independent school for girls.  This centennial anthology has been recognized by the Dallas Historical Society for collecting and publishing historical material about one of the most important institutions in Texas, in addition to receiving the Silver Circle of Excellence Award, a book prize recognizing academic institutional histories. 

ESSAYS

Mar/Apr 2017
Getting in Formation: Story in Service of Social Justice
The Women's Review of Books

July 2016
What the ‘First Black Woman’ Librarian of Congress Means
Time

Sept 2013
A World of Difference
The Hockaday School Anthology

Aug 2001
Where is the (Black) Love?
Ms.

Feb 1999
When Cops Are Killers
The Nation

Jul 1996
Community Pride: Reclaiming a Neighborhood in Central Harlem
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

Mar 1996
Black Bibliophiles: Professional and Amateur Collectors Indulge a Passion for Black History and Culture
Quarterly Black Review of Books

REVIEWS

Mar 2006
"Strange Fruit, Family Tree"
Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America by Cynthia Carr
The Village Voice

Oct 2005
“Working His Forty Acres” 
Spike Lee: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It by Kaleem Aftab
Los Angeles Times Book Review

Aug 2005
“In the Twinkling of an Eye” 
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Black Issues Book Review

Jan 2004
“Welfare Family Values” 
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and Flat Broke with Children by Sharon Hays
The Women’s Review of Books

Aug 2003
“The Harlem Renaissance and Black Transnational Culture”
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism by Brent Edwards
The Crisis

Dec 2001
"Caged Bird"
If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery by Farah Jasmine Griffin
The Crisis

Nov 2000
An American Story by Debra Dickerson
Voice Literary Supplement

Oct 1999
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip Hop Feminist by Joan Morgan
The Women’s Review of Books

Dec 1995
We Flew Over the Bridge by Faith Ringgold
Quarterly Black Review of Books

Feb 1995
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Voice Literary Supplement

PROFILES

May 2006
Character Study: Anna Deavere Smith as Herself
Black Issues Book Review

Nov-Dec 2005
LaChanze Leads Cast of ‘The Color Purple’ on Broadway
The Crisis

May 2004
Bill T. Jones: Still Dancing Outside the Lines
The Crisis

Dec 2002
"Lisa Sullivan’s Vision for the Future"
Nonprofit Quarterly

Sept-Oct 2002
"The Faithful, Fighting, Writing Life of Poet-Activist June Jordan”
Black Issues Book Review

April 1999
“June Jordan’s Acts of Faith”
MAMM

1998
Artist and Influence: Thulani Davis (video, 1 hr, 47 mins)
Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc

Nov 1996
Maker of Saints
by Thulani Davis, The Village Voice