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In defense of the troublemaker.

Is that life or is that literature?

The stories we tell about our sexual selves.

True to oneself! Which Self?

On the (un)masking of nascent histories.

The continuous work of history.

On whether Columbia’s number two ranking is rooted in falsehoods.

On smallness, play, and the beautiful collective.

The gift of the clown up and down Broadway.

On Beats, Bollinger, and burgers.

On designing the new Black studies curriculum for New York City public schools.

Practicing people power.

On the stories we tell and the stories we don’t about the women who don’t quite fit in.

We're all just drunks in this room.

On Naija neorealism.

Law through a new lens.

Shifting Aspiration: An Afternoon at the Met

On the necessity of storytelling.