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LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MAGICAL NEGROES
I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background
Magical Negro #217: Diana Ross Finishing a Rib in Alabama, 1990s
Magical Negro #3: The Strong Black Woman
The High Priestess of Soul’s Sunday Morning Visit to the Wall of Respect
Nancy Meyers and My Dream of Whiteness
Magical Negro #607: Gladys Knight on the 200th Episode of The Jeffersons
Magical Negro #84: The Black Body
Let’s Get Some Better Angels at This Party
Two White Girls in the African Braid Shop on Marcy and Fulton
Black Women for Beginners Pt. 1
When a Man I Love Jerks Off in My Bed next to Me and Falls Asleep
A Brief History of the Present
Ode to Fried Chicken’s Guest Appearance on Scandal
Magical Negro #1: Jesus Christ
“Lilac Wine” by Eartha Kitt vs. “Lilac Wine” by Jeff Buckley
Black Ego (Original Soundtrack)
I TOLD MY THERAPIST I TRIED TO MEDITATE AND SHE LAUGHED
“Parker’s Mood” by Charlie Parker
Magical Negro #89: Michael Jackson in Blackface on a Date with Tatum O’Neal, 1970s
My Sister Says White Supremacy Is Turning Her Crazy
We Are the House That Holds the Table at Which Yes We Will Happily Take a Goddamn Seat
The Black Saint & the Sinner Lady & the Dead & the Truth
Preface to a Twenty Volume Joke Book
Toward a New Theory of Negro Propaganda
IT WAS SUMMER NOW AND THE COLORED PEOPLE CAME OUT INTO THE SUNSHINE