Arts & Culture Essays

Darnell has also written extensively about arts and culture and their roles in both uniting and dividing us.​

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Read some samples of his work here:

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• Rashaad Newsome: Stop Playing In My Face Art Catalog

• An Ethics of Black Queer Seeing

• Fader: What Kind of Writer is Frank Ocean?

• Musiqology: Jazmine Sullivan Sings a Brave New World

• OUT: Marlon James & Nicolle Dennis-Benn on Being Queer and Jamaican

• Auburn Avenue: The American Story AD 2018

• Urban Spaces and the Mattering of Black Lives