May 30, 2019 – Salamishah Tillet takes a critical look at Ava DuVernay’s latest project, a Netflix mini-series called “When They See Us.” As Tillet writes, “Ava DuVernay’s mini-series depicts the excruciating toll that persecution and incarceration had on the teenage boys known as the Central Park Five.” Read her article for the New York Times here.

Salamishah Tillet will join other esteemed writers and artists at the Alice Walker 75 event on July 13, 2019, in Eatonton, Ga.