Got to talk to my friend Farai Chideya on her podcast Our Body Politic. (I met the talented Farai when she was a senior in college!) This...

I don't usually like interviews of myself, but enjoyed this one on "Tell Me More" with Kelly Corrigan on PBS. You can watch here.

So many of us were devastated to learn of the death of the Olympic track star Tori Bowie and her baby in May, due to complications of...

"Under the Skin" was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for a n0nfiction book. I was honored to be in the company of this year's...

I was very happy to win this year's Lukas Prize from the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard....

Here are the covers of Under the Skin -- the hardback, the UK version published by Scribe and the upcoming type-only paperback. I like...

Very proud of Arline Geronimus on the publication of her book Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society....

Excited about these two... The Lukas Prize and the Lillian Smith Book Award.

Under the Skin received a nomination for the 2023 NAACP Image Award in the nonfiction category. Though I didn't win (go Viola Davis!), I...

I attended the wonderful Anarcha, Lucy, Betsey Second Annual Day of Reckoning conference in Montgomery, Al at the beginning of March....

Very honored to be reviewed by Amna Nawaz, who had read my book closely and showed by her copy covered with Post-it notes! Watch it here.

Very happy with these reviews.... New York Times Book Review Washington Post The Guardian NPR Book of the Day USA Today Politico Bustle...

Fresh Air with Dave Davies, June 14, 2022 Code Switch with Karen Grigsby Bates, June 15, 2022 The Takeaway with Dr. Melissa Harris Perry,...

Was happy to be in conversation with my friend and colleague Charles Blow.

I discussed the question "Can Medicine Be More Equitable" with Dr. Paula Johnson, president of Wellesley College, and Dr. Carolina Reyes,...

I was in conversation with Latona Giwa, founder of the Birthmark Doula Collective and Deon Haywood of Women with a Vision, at Baldwin &...

Alabama's poet laureate Ashley M. Jones and I discussed Under the Skin with The Mothers of Gynecology monument by artist Michelle Browder...

Author adrienne maree brown ("Emergent Strategy") moderated my conversation with the Greensboro artist and activist Caroline Armijo who...

We launched at St. Ann's Parish in Brooklyn. My bestie Jacqueline Woodson joined me onstage and the intersectional feminist bookstore...

Honored that Under the Skin was chosen as one of Oprah Daily's best books of spring. (It's number 21!) Click here for the citation.