Published on hollywoodreporter.com – ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Is an Important Invitation to Feel Black Pain by Eisa Nefertari Ulen | 12/7/2018 Critic’s Notebook: In 2018, African-American filmmakers like Spike Lee, George Tillman Jr.Continue reading

An interview with Kevin Powell Originally appeared on Truthout.org – How Progressives Can End the Era of Mediocre White Men in Power By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | Interview | September 4, 2018 What enabled theContinue reading

Originally appeared on Truthout.org – “Geniuses Hiding in Plain Sight”: Tayari Jones on How the Academy Can Reinforce Inequality By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | Interview | March 27, 2018 2018 is a dynamic year forContinue reading

Originally appeared on Truthout.org – Building on a Deep Organizing History, Black Women Are Reshaping the Electoral Landscape By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | News Analysis | February 10, 2018 Doug Jones in Alabama. Ralph NorthamContinue reading

Published on LAReviewOfBooks.org – In Conversation: On Love, Art, and a New Vision of Liberated Black Womanhood in “An American Marriage” By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | February 6, 2018 Tayari Jones and I first metContinue reading

Published on HuffPost.com – Eisa Ulen Remembers Her Friend, Erica Kennedy By Eisa Ulen | December 6, 2017 I do not want to write in the past tense. I must use the past tense notContinue reading

Published on LAReviewOfBooks.org – The Space in Between: Afro-Surreal Liminality in Khary Lazarre-White’s “Passage” By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | November 18, 2017 TO BE Black in the United States is to be in a perpetualContinue reading

Originally appeared on Truthout.org – Women’s Work: A Personal Reflection on MLK Day By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | Op-Ed | January 16, 2017 I have not spent much time with the white women and girlsContinue reading

Originally appeared on Truthout.org – Breaking the Binaries: “The Thunder Beneath Us” By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | Interview | January 2, 2017 Nicole Blades’ second novel, The Thunder Beneath Us, centers and elevates Black femaleContinue reading

Originally appeared on Truthout.org – How I Talked About Trump With My 6-Year-Old Child By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | Op-Ed | November 10, 2016 What I felt Wednesday morning, and continue to feel, is moreContinue reading

Originally appeared on Truthout.org – Black Women Do Breastfeed, Despite Intense Systemic Barriers in the US By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | News Analysis | August 26, 2016 The movement to normalize breastfeeding in this countryContinue reading

Originally appeared on Truthout.org – When Play Is Criminalized: Racial Disparities in Childhood By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Truthout | Report | Monday, July 25, 2016 A significant segment of the child-age population in the UnitedContinue reading

Published on BitchMedia.org – If We Must Wear Ourselves Out, Let it Be Because We Build By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | July 11, 2016 We are a family. We are a family whose oldest forebearsContinue reading

Published on TheRoot.com – Literary Women Pay Homage to Zora Neale Hurston on Her 125th Birthday by Janelle Harris; excerpt by Eisa Ulen | 01/07/16 | Culture “I first read Their Eyes Were Watching GodContinue reading

Originally appeared on Truthout.org – “Creed” Reveals Filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s Womanist Sensibilities By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | Review | January 5, 2016 Ryan Coogler loves Black women. Both his feature films, 2013’s Fruitvale Station andContinue reading

Originally appeared on Truthout.org – Restorative Justice Gives Our Children Dignity in US Schools By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, Truthout | News Analysis | Tuesday, December 29, 2015 The deadly attacks against Black bodies made byContinue reading

Originally appeared on Truthout.org – Black Parenting Matters: Raising Children in a World of Police Terror By Eisa Nefertari Ulen | Op-Ed | October 1, 2015 My child’s breath is a freedom song. In. Out.Continue reading

“The question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream, is the question of my life,” writes Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son. In Between the WorldContinue reading