Writers of Color • interviews

Donovan X. Ramsey is a multimedia journalist whose work puts an emphasis on race and class. He has written for outlets including The Atlantic, Gawker, The New Republic, MSNBC, Talking Points Memo and Ebony, among others.The Columbus, Ohio native earned his M.S. in magazine journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and B.A. in psychology from Morehouse College. He is currently a Demos Emerging Voices fellow and resides in New York City.

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Police Reform is Impossible in America (Gawker)
Rent a Cop: The Big, Shady (But Legal) Business of Secondary Policing (Gawker)
Millennials Aren't Cheap, Skittish, Or Quirky—We're Just Broke (Talking Points Memo)
It's Time to Focus on the Other Fergusons in America (New Republic)
The Truth About Black Twitter (The Atlantic)
Are You Smarter Than a Cop? (Gawker)
Dangerous Style: How Wearing the Wrong Jewelry Can Get You Locked Up (Gawker)

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Fabiola Ching

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ABS's Black-ish Revolutionary-ish (Style)
The Foreign and the Familliar (The Coalition)
Thursdays Were Reserved for Falling In Love All Over Again (The Coalition)
Gyrl Gaze (Polyester Magazine)

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Sulagna Misra

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Why the Game of Thrones Composer Watched Each Episode a Thousand Times (Vanity Fair)
How Captain America helped me find a friend in the real world (Hello Giggles)
A History Lesson From the Captain America Fandom (The Toast)
Homes of the Future (The Toast)
A Lady's Guide for Covertly Joining a Fictional Army (The Toast)
What the Color of Your Existensial Abyss (The Toast)
Life Hacks for the Marginalized (Medium)
Geopolitical Fictions: Fantasy, Reality, and International Diplomacy on Madam Secretary (Flavorwire)
How to Spot a Frenemy (Teen Vogue)
How to Find the One Purse (The Billfold)
Superhero Science: How to Fly, Control Weather, And Hulk Out (World Science Festival)
Smart Reads: Cynthia Barnett's Vitamania' (World Science Festival)
Smart Reads: Bill Nye's 'Undeniable' (World Science Festival)
My TinyLetter

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Jia Tolentino

Features editor at Jezebel, former contributing editor at the Hairpin.

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Rush After "A Rape On Campus": A UVA Alum Goes Back to Rugby Road (Jezebel)
Why I Have To Be So “Rude” (The Hairpin)
A Note to Chait: Dissent Isn't Suffocation, Internet Isn't Real Life (Jezebel)
Good for Business: Five Years in, What Does ‘Shark Tank’ Mean for America? (Grantland)
The Difference Between ALS and Ferguson Is That One Ill Can Be Cured (Time)

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Kaitlyn Greenidge

We Love You Charlie Freeman, A Novel, Algonquin Press, 2016

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Violently Wrought, an interview with Marlon James (Guernica)
Interview with Victor LaValle (The Believer)
Emperor of the Universe (Kweli)

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Estelle Tang

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Personal Website

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Demetria Irwin

I just love to tell stories. As a native Detroiter who now lives in New York and works as a full-time freelance writer and editor, I’m brimming with ideas and questions about the world.