Writings
Kevin Powell has written for publications such as Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Essence, Rolling Stone, New York Amsterdam News, and Vibe, where he was a founding staff member and served as a senior writer. He interviewed and profiled General Colin Powell and Tupac Shakur. Most recently, he has been a Writing Fellow for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, as well as a Phelps Stokes Fund Senior Fellow.
Since 1993, Powell has published 10 books, including the most recent title Open Letters to America (Soft Skull Press, 2009) – "a celebration of the sudden, mass political engagement of America's youth, and Americans in general; his thoughts in the aftermath of Obama's magical and historic presidential campaign..." Powell's childhood memoir, My Own Private Ghetto, and The Kevin Powell Reader will be published in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
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