Contributors
With creative works from:
Trymaine Lee, 8 2
Wesley Morris, 60 Khalil Gibran Muhammad, 7 0
Jesmyn Ward
Rita Dove
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Yusef KomunyakaaKiese Laymon
Clint Smith
ZZ PackerCamille T. Dungy
Yaa Gyasi
Eve L. Ewing
Darryl PinckneyLynn Nottage, 8 4
Jamelle Bouie, 50
Dannielle Bowman, 98 Jeneen Interlandi, 44
Linda Villarosa, 58
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Page 14
is a staff writer for the magazine.
A 2017 MacArthur fellow, she has
won a National Magazine Award,
a Peabody Award and a George
Polk Award.Lynn Nottage, Page 84
is a playwright and screenwriter.
She has received two Pulitzer
Prizes and a MacArthur fellowship,
and she is currently an associate
professor at Columbia School of
the Arts.Trymaine Lee, Page 82
is a Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy
Award-winning journalist and a
correspondent for MSNBC.
He covers social-justice issues
and the role of race in politics
and law enforcement.Dannielle Bowman, Page 98
is a visual artist working with
photography. She is an artist in
residence at Baxter Street Camera
Club of New York, where she
will have a solo show in January.Jeneen Interlandi, Page 44
is a member of The Times’s
editorial board and a staff writer
for the magazine. Her last
article for the magazine was
about teaching in the age
of school shootings.Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Page 70
is a Suzanne Young Murray
professor at the Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study at Harvard
University and author of ‘‘The
Condemnation of Blackness.’’Wesley Morris, Page 60
is a staff writer for the magazine,
a critic at large for The New
York Times and a co-host of the
podcast ‘‘Still Processing.’’ He
was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer
Prize for criticism.Linda Villarosa, Page 58
directs the journalism program at
the City College of New York and is a
contributing writer for the magazine.
Her feature on black infant and
maternal mortality was a finalist for
a National Magazine Award.10
Nkole Hannah-Jones, Page 14
Barry Jenkins
Jacqueline Woodson