Brooke Obie is Editor-at-Large for EBONY.com and the author of a forthcoming novel. Follow her on Twitter @BrookeObie.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Sil Lai Abrams Blooms in Blackness
Brooke Obie reviews Sil Lai Abrams’s new memoir “Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity.”...

Unreasonable Standards: An Interview with Roxane Gay
"We tend to hold feminism and feminists to unreasonable standards."...

Why Is There a Crazy Caribbean Woman in the Attic?: Tiphanie Yanique on "Land of Love and Drowning"
When you think about the Caribbean and this particular place, the US Virgin Islands, you think about the “US” in the front. What does it mean to be American in this very specific kind of way?...
