A short selection of non-fiction from over the years.
More links to come
Standing in the shadows of motown
- Excerpt from buppies, b-boys, baps and bohos: notes on post-soul black culture (1983)Chocolate Chips at the Ice Capades
- The Village Voice - August 7, 1984All Eyez on Spre
- The Village Voice - February 2, 1999A Wise Man's Brill Building
- The Village Voice - December 2, 2003Rhymin' and stealin'
- The guardian - January 23, 2005'I Feel Like A Native Son'
- New York Times - June 19, 2005Across racial lines; The wire: how white writers successfully explored black america
- moving image source - july 29, 2008Strangers on His Street
- New York Times - April 5, 2009Black and White Struggle for a Rosy Glow
- New York Times - August 14, 2011New Directors Flesh Out Black America, All of It
- New York Times - December 25, 2011Soul Fable, ReImagined for a New Era
- New York Times - August 12, 2012Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible
- New York Times - February 17, 2013Red and Black
- New York Times - September 22, 2013New Photos of John Coltrane Rediscovered 50 Years After They Were Shot
- Smithsonian Magazine - April 2014His Own Godfather
- New York Times - July 27, 2014Happy to Be Your Guide to Black Identity
- New York Times - October 12, 2014