“Why do you think that so many white people love what you write?” asked the award-winning New York Times Magazine journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones, during a sold-out discussion at The Schomburg ...

Writing Past The White Gaze As A Black Author : ... You're in this fictional universe where these black and brown kids are being kids, cutting up, looking for love, learning, ...

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Interrogation “You’re Not Wrong. You’re Not Crazy.” Ta-Nehisi Coates on living, writing, and being black in Trump’s America.

In fact, she said, "I really feel that white people should write about black characters." But the key is that "comfort zone" you mention. You have to get there well before you put pen to paper.

Butler's 1979 book, Kindred, is now a series for FX on Hulu. In 1993, the pioneering author, who died in 2006, told Fresh Air she made up her own stories so that she could see herself in them.