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"Anti-Racism and Political Contagion From Save Dafur to Black Likes Matter"
Middle East Report Online, July 2020
"How One Man Survived Syria's Gulag"
The Nation, May 2019
"Tangier's Jazzmen-and their phantom producer"
Africa is a Country, October 2017
"Is Morocco Headed Toward Insurrection?"
The Nation, July 2017
"The Political Uses of Malcom X's Image"
The Nation, July 2016
"The Music of Malcom X"
The New Yorker, February 2015
"Claude McKay and Gnawa Music"
The New Yorker, September 2014
Articles written for Africana.com, Black Voices, ColorLines (1999-2003)
"African Film with a French Twist" - April 20, 2001
"B-Boys in "Les Banlieues": Hip Hop Culture in France" - August 16, 2000
"The Berbers: Defending North Africa's Cultural Heritage" - March 26, 2001
"Black and Brown in Harlem, USA" - August 16, 2000
"Blacks in Argentina: Disappearing Acts" - April 2, 2002
"Brown: The Last Discovery of America" - May 28, 2002
"Bubba Black Sheep: Ex-President Moves to the Hood" - February 21, 2001
"Carol Swain: an Interview" - October 7, 2002
"Castro Revisits Harlem" - September 10, 2000
'Creating a New America': Dialogue with Russel Simmons - February 5, 2002
"Facing up to the Failure of 'Racial Democracy' in Brazil" - November 28, 2001
"Farrakhan Accepts Orthodox Islam" - March 2002
"Glenn Loury: An Interview" - May 29, 2002
"Gil Noble: An Interview" - July 11, 2002
"Haitian President Sets Date for Elections" - April 2000
"Havana Healing: Castro's Minority Scholarship Plan" - March 1, 2001
"Hip Hop of the Gods" - April 27, 2001
"I May Not Get There With You - An Interview with Michael Eric Dyson on his biography of Martin Luther King"
"The Invidious Sir Vidia" - December 11, 2001
"Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora" - April 30, 2001
"Islamic Fundamentalism Gaining Ground in Africa" - October 24, 2001
"Lani Guinier: An Interview" - July 1, 2002
"Malcolm's Papers: Home to Harlem" - January 13, 2003
"New York's Dominicans: A Community in Mourning" - November 21, 2001
"Poetry from la Isla: A Second Look at Piñero" - March 1, 2002
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