Publications

Academic

• Locating Africa: Afrocentric Analyses of Contested Cultures (2025)

• Black Dance in Texas (2024)

• Africans in Louisiana: An Afrocentric Analysis of Southwest Louisiana’s Culture Through the Lens of Spirituality (Dissertation, 2023)

• “Writing and Activism: A Political Perspective on Afro-Latinas’ Struggle in Colombia, Brazil, and the Caribbean” (chapter in AfroLatinas and LatiNegras)

Artist Books

• Book of Funny Stories: For and By Black People

• Re/membering Bamboula | Embodying Home

Book Reviews

• Reclamation, Rejection, or Creation: What Does Agency Mean? (Broad Street Review)

• Is feminism the answer? (Broad Street Review)

Dance Reviews and Previews

• The Rhythm Lives as They Enter: Review of Kalpana Subbarao’s Ritmo Zindagi (2021)

• Philly Fringe 2020: Kangaroo Zulu Dancers present ‘Indlamu’ (2020)

• UH Professor Premieres Dance Show at Hobby (2011)

Essays and Articles

• Dark Matter, Dark Energy Essay on Sunnyside (2023)

• 'You betta do somethin’': How seven artists helped Third Ward reclaim itself 30 years ago (2023)

• Hispaniola: One Island Divided? (FoundMe Mag)

News

• Defense is Desperate

Nonfiction

• Too Black to be Creole: Reflections on My Childhood Identity

Poetry

• Bayou Baby (2024)

• Our Silent Voice

• Nightmare; Grounding; Oshun’s Healing

• Little Black Girls (Not That But This)

• Grannie (What’s the New News)

Politics

• 44th Annual Legislative Conference Highlights

• 'Ye for Presidente

Periodicals

• Michael Brown: Addressing the Root of Historical Parallels and Patterns

• Death Penalty is Barbaric Practice

• Religious Garments Should be Worn Freely

Travel, History, and Culture

• How Well Do You Know Houston’s Black Culture? (Solcieti)

• A Semester at SeaThe Book of Gombo: Okra Recipes from Africa and its Diaspora

• TNRB: SWLA

• African Herbalism on Attakapas Land

• The New Red Book (2022)

• Top Ten Black Inventors (You Didn't Know About)

Children’s

• The ABCs Series