Author Natashia Deon

Natashia Deon

Natashia Deón is a Los Angeles attorney and creator of the reading series Dirty Laundry Lit. A Pushcart Prize nominee, PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, Bread Loaf scholarship recipient, and VCCA Fellow, her work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Rattling Wall, BODY, The Feminist Wire, and other places. She has recently completed her first novel set on the eve of the Civil War.

Black History Month: From Negro History Week to Post-Racialism?

Natashia Deon and Athena Lark

History, Society & Culture

In a recent video post on Upworthy.com, social commentator/comedian, Louis CK (who is white) was interviewed by Jay Leno on The Tonight Show. Louis CK joked, “Every year, white people add a hundred years...

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Why We’re in Such a Frenzy About Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

I Run ‘Facial Recognition’ on Buildings to Unlock Architectural Secrets

The Weight of the Presidency

Four Crises Facing the President and How History Can Help

Gullibility and the Triumph of the Con-Artists

Is the Era of In-Class Education Coming to an End?

Colonizing Mars Means Contaminating Mars – And Never Knowing For Sure If It Had Its Own Native Life

Jonathan Franzen, Climate Change and the Need for Imagination

UC Berkeley’s David A. Patterson Sees the Future After Moore’s Law

Some Renewable Energy Types Promise a Bright Future. Others are Merely Sci-Fi Fantasy

Author Natashia Deon

Natashia Deon

Black History Month: From Negro History Week to Post-Racialism?