Mason Cannon, Columbia University

When can you call yourself a ‘writer’? Or an artist? Or anything else?

Gabrielle Pascal, Hofstra University

Few authors captured the human experience, particularly the Black experience, with as much nuance as her.

Carli Moses, Union University

Where do you start with the author who offered so much insight into the black experience?

Lauren Prestia, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Her spoken word is just as genius as her writing.