Emily Lordi

Women’s creative inheritance (“The Artist’s Mind”) (T)

Black monumental art (T)

Wangechi Mutu interview (Cultured)

Whitney Houston's Legacy of Supporting other Women (T)

The Radical Experimentation of Black Psychedelia (T)

New Black Recovery Narratives (T)

Black Artists Leaving America (T)

The Misunderstood Talent of Gladys Knight (New Yorker)

Afrofuturism’s Feminist Origins with Nona Hendryx (Boston Review)

Dolly Parton profile (T magazine)

Liner notes for Lady Sings the Blues

FKA twigs profile (T magazine Greats issue)

Annual essay on Mariah (New Yorker)

On Minnie Riperton’s complex performance of joy (Hyped on Melancholy)

On Bill Withers’s stutter (The Point)

James Brown’s work ethic (ASAP journal)

Mariah’s Christmas album turns 25(?!) (New Yorker)

Toni Morrison & Nina Simone’s soul aesthetics (New Yorker)

Leaving Neverland cover story (Billboard)

Eulaulah Hathaway on her musical marriage to Donny Hathaway (New Yorker)

Becoming as a motherhood memoir (New Yorker)

Lauryn Hill & Miseducation 20 Years Later (New Yorker)

Aretha’s covers (Billboard)

Aretha Franklin’s “Dr. Feelgood” (New Yorker)

Betty Davis & Janelle Monae (New Yorker)

Black writers' open letters, from James Baldwin to the present (The Atlantic)

Nikki Giovanni & MLK (The Atlantic)

Donny Hathaway & Nadine McKinnor's "This Christmas" (New Yorker)

Memorial tribute to Otis Redding (The Atlantic)

Centennial tribute to Ella Fitzgerald (PBS)

Janelle Monae in music v. film (Pitchfork)

Review of Solange's A Seat at the Table (Slate)

MJ Seven Years Later (The Root)

Beyonce, soul, Lemonade (The Fader)

How Prince Grieved (The Fader)

Review of Soul Serenade by Rashod Ollison (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Tribute to Maurice White (New Black Man)

Interview with Jazmine Sullivan about Reality Show (Pitchfork)

On Erykah Badu's weird gender stuff (New Black Man) 

Review of Lalah Hathaway Live (The Root)

On Mark Ribowsky's Otis Redding bio (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Review of Elizabeth Alexander's Light of the World (Los Angeles Review of Books)

Review of D'Angelo's Black Messiah (The Root)

Review of David Ritz's biography of Aretha (Los Angeles Review of Books) 

Feeling many things about Mariah (New Black Man)

Black women scholars as writers (The Feminist Wire)

First essay on Donny Hathaway (The Root)

Review of Beyonce's BEYONCE (New Black Man)

Why I hated the Muscle Shoals documentary (The New Inquiry)

The art of Grace Williams (Mass Review)

Review of Janelle Monae's Electric Lady (The Feminist Wire)

Birthday love note to Bilal (New Black Man)