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Recent writing:
Globe and Mail, With new novel Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie treads a worn-out path (book review)
New York Magazine, The Grandparents Fighting Against Book Bans
CBC, The R&B singer Idman is choosing to do the scary things
Profiles
Chatelaine, Dionne Brand is the Alchemist of Language
i-D magazine, On his debut album, Mustafa the Poet explores loss
Pitchfork, Ebhoni Is Reclaiming the Toronto R&B Crown for Women
Quill & Quire, Itah Sadu, co-owner of A Different Booklist, sees continued vitality despite a neighborhood’s ongoing change
Arts and Culture reporting
C-Magazine, Anique Jordan's Three-Thirty Exhibit: Ebti Nabag, Aaron Jones, and Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
CBC Arts, Oscar Peterson’s Troubles with Home
Refinery29, The Best Canadian Shows Coming To Your TV This Fall & Winter
CBC Arts, How Gyimah Gariba is using caricature to push for a more empathetic world
Refinery29, Singer-Songwriter Amaal’s Liberation Is All Of Ours, Too
CBC Music, On Cadence Weapon's Parallel World, every song is an audio essay
i-D magazine, On his debut album, Mustafa the Poet explores loss (also in the Summer 2021 print issue)
CBC Arts, No matter how far from Toronto he goes, SAFE's music always embodies Esplanade
BuzzFeed, The Twilight of the Angry Black Woman: Sandra Bland and Nicki Minaj
The Fader, Banning Shisha in Toronto Is About A Lot More Than Health Codes
Cover Stories
The WestEnd Phoenix, We Are Family: An Interview with Yannick Anton
Book Reviews
Globe and Mail, With new novel Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie treads a worn-out path
Globe and Mail, Catherine Hernandez’s The Story of Us forces us to witness the structures of Canada’s immigration system
The National Post, In Mychal Denzel Smith's memoir, young black identity is a conflicted space between optimism and death
The National Post, Trust No Aunty: Maria Qamar has the aunt-idote for unsolicited advice
Investigative Reporting
New York Magazine, The Grandparents Fighting Against Book Bans
The WestEnd Phoenix, “Ford Nation’s Deep Divide”
Complex, The Black Muslim teen’s death that mainstream media ignored
Pound Magazine, Destroy All Monsters (On Rob Ford’s Anti-Graffiti Policies)
Complex, Why this 2-month-old tweet was taken more seriously than police brutality
Complex, Does this men’s rights group deserve to be an official student organization?