Writing Samples

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Non-Fiction

BuzzFeed News

Talking About Climate Change Is Depressing. Does It Have To Be? (April 2022)

So Much Modern Slang Is AAVE. Here’s How Language Appropriation Erases The Influence of Black Culture. (September 2021)

Model D Media

King Solomon Baptist Church seeks to canonize its roots, broaden its scope (February 2020)

Hour Detroit

Ferndale Cat Shelter Helps Felines With Special Needs Find Forever Homes (October 2018)

A Deeper Look into the Racial and Ethnic Tensions Dividing Metro Detroit (August 2018)

What You Need to Know About Oil and Gas Drilling in the Suburbs (January 2018)

Where Do We Go From Here? (May 2017)

BGD Blog (formerly known as Black Girl Dangerous)

This is What White Supremacy Looks Like in Black Middle-Class Communities (June 2015, revised and republished in “The Solidarity Struggle,” 2016)

Fiction

“Roar, Sweet Child, Roar” — Fireside Magazine, November 2021

“The Mystical Art of Codeswitching” — Tor, October 2020

“It Should Have Been You” — io9, October 2018

“The Paladin Protocol” — Fireside Magazine, May 2018

“Toward the Sun” — Sundown Towns, Fiyah Lit Magazine, July 2017

“Blackout Day” — Beyond Ourselves, Seven Scribes, January 2017

“Between the Lines” — First Bloom, Brown Sugar Griots, 2016