The following table of contents features all articles published during Black Writers Week 2023 (June 19th through June 25th), arranged in the following categories: intros, features, interviews, reviews, TV reviews, republished features, republished interviews and republished reviews. —The Editors INTROS An Introduction to Black Writers Week 2023 by Chaz Ebert Meet the Writers of Black Writers Week 2023 by Chaz Ebert FEATURES Rise of the Beats: On Hip-Hop and Hollywood by Shawn Edwards Sweet Home Chicago Series for Juneteenth by Chaz Ebert INTERVIEWS Jumanji Meets Saw: DeWayne Perkins on The Blackening by Robert Daniels REVIEWS Surrounded by Peyton Robinson TV REVIEWS Marvel’s Secret Invasion Continues the Franchise’s Dull Slate by Kaiya Shunyata REPUBLISHED FEATURES Considering John Ford’s ‘Apology Western,’ Sergeant Rutledge by Sergio Mims Dignified Defiance: Sidney Poitier (1927-2022) by Robert Daniels Goodbye to a Legend: Tina Turner (1939-2023) by Brandon Wilson In Loving Memory of Diahanne Carroll and Jessye Norman by Chaz Ebert The Most—and Least—Fun I’ve Had at the Movies All Year by Chaz Ebert Stigmatization of Mental Health for Black Men Permeates Cinematic Landscape by Carla Renata REPUBLISHED INTERVIEW Answering the Call: J.D. Dillard on Devotion by Rendy Jones His Life Mattered: Director Nadia Hallgren and Attorney Ben Crump on CIVIL by Chaz Ebert REPUBLISHED REVIEWS Apples by Jourdain Searles The African Desperate by Peyton Robinson The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster by Peyton Robinson Beba by Niani Scott The Blackening by Peyton Robinson Devotion by Robert Daniels I Got a Monster by Carla Renata Kaepernick & America by Brandon Towns Lost Ollie by Rendy Jones Rye Lane by Peyton Robinson Sisu by Robert Daniels White Men Can’t Jump by Robert Daniels Read More