Emily J. Lordi

Lauryn & Miseducation 20 Years Later (New Yorker)

Aretha’s covers (Billboard)

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

Betty Davis & Janelle Monae (New Yorker)

Nikki Giovanni & MLK (The Atlantic)

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

Memorial tribute to Otis Redding (The Atlantic)

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

Beyonce, Soul, Lemonade (The Fader)

. . .Prince. . . (The Fader)

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

Memorial tribute to Maurice White (New Black Man)

Interview with Jazmine Sullivan about her album Reality Show (Pitchfork)

On Erykah Badu's weird gender stuff, esp. on But You Can't Use My Phone (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 Franklin (Los Angeles Review of Books) 

Feeling many things about Mariah (New Black Man)

Black women scholars as writers (The Feminist Wire)

Memorial tribute to Donny Hathaway (The Root)

Review of Beyonce's BEYONCE (New Black Man)

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

The spiritual art of Grace Williams (Mass Review)

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

Birthday love note to Bilal (New Black Man)