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PODCAST AND RADIO

• 7 Tracks with Jacques Morel: Episode 3 - Zeba Blay

• Goop: Is Representation Enough To Be Seen?

• Growing up with gal-dem: Zeba Blay On Being Carefree

• Our Body Politic: Celebrating and Supporting Black Women In Media

• Slate News: Colorism, Cluelessness, and Carefree Black Girls

• The Allure Podcast: How Black Women Infiltrated The Beauty Industry

• The Cut Podcast: Why Does The internet Hate Black Women?

• The Signal Halifax: Two Brown Girls

• Then & Now with Ivie Ani: Zeba Blay

• Well-Read Black Girl: Zeba Blay Brings Healing to the Page

• WNYC’s The Takeaway: Harriet Attempts To Capture The Life Of An American Icon

ONLINE FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS

• Girls At Library: The Interview

• Apartment Therapy: Apartment Tour

• Architectural Digest: Splurge Worthy

• Bitch Magazine: Carefree Black Girls Treats Black Women As Art

• Catapult: A Conversation with Zeba Blayt

• Cup of Jo: My Beauty Uniform

• Domino: Zeba Blay’s Book Collection

• Forbes: Zeba Blay Talks Her Book And The State of Black Womanhood In America

• Harper’s Bazar: Zeba Blay on What It Means To Be A “Carefree Black Girl”

• I-D: Besties Zeba Blay and Keesean Moore On Radical Vulnerability

• Interview Magazine: The Writer and Cultural Critic Zeba Blay is Putting Her Shadows on the Page

• Into the Gloss: The Topshelf Interview

• Keys Soulcare: Zeba Blay Is Starting An Art Revolution

• Kirkus: Starred review of Carefree Black Girls

• Library Journal: Carefree Black Girls Review

• Loup: Interview

• MoMa Magazine: Can a Trip to the Museum Be Miraculous?

• NPR: 5 Books At the Intersection of Black Feminist Thought, Culture, And Politics

• Okay Africa: Zeba Blay Lands a Book Deal Based on #Carefreeblackgirl Movement

• Publisher’s Weekly: Review of Carefree Black Girls

• Sade: A Conversation with Zeba Blay

• Teen Vogue: Zeba Blay on Writing, Depression and Finding Joy 

• The New School News: Zeba Blay, Liberal Arts ’13, Brings #CarefreeBlackGirl to the Masses with Her New Book

PRINT FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS

• Womanly Magazine Cover Story: “Zeba Blay Wants Black Women To Thrive” by Tarisai Ngangura

MENTIONS AND CITATIONS

• Black Meme by Legacy Russell

• Bring It On: The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie That Changed…Everything by Kase Wickman 

• Chicago Tribune: About That Unfortunate T-Shirt, Meryl

• Chicago Tribune: “Big Little Lies” Is Less White This Season. That Doesn’t Mean It’s Smart About Race.

• Chicago Tribune: Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America Turns 30

• NPR Codeswitch: In Conversation About Diversity In Hollywood, Where Does Sundance Fit In?

• Rookie: Daily Links, Two Brown Girls Return Edition

• The Cut: Denée Benton Is Proud of Her Southern Heritage

• The New York Times: In A Book About Trauma She Hopes To Show What Survival Looks Like

• The New York Times: What We Know About Breonna Taylor’s Case And Death

• Vogue: The Bold Type Captures Millenial New York at Its Most Annoying. So Why Do I Miss It?

• Vox: How To Think About Consuming Art Made By Sexual Predators