Author: Stephane Dunn

Professor Stephane Dunn, PhD, MA, MFA (University of Notre Dame) is the author of Baad Bitches & Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films (2008), Chicago ’66 (2020 Finish Line/Tirota Social Impact Screenplay winner) & the forthcoming novel Snitchers (2022). She is a co-founder of the Cinema, Television & Emerging Media Studies (CTEMS) major at Morehouse College. Her writing has appeared in a number of edited books and other publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN.com, The Atlantic, Vogue, TheRoot, Ebony, and Ms., among others.

Rachel Nichols and ESPN’s Failed Diversity: “I Know Personally From the Female Side of It”

Stephane Dunn

Rachel Nichols’s lack of solidarity with Maria Taylor as two women marginalized at male-centric ESPN and her dismissal of Taylor’s unique experiences as a Black woman suggest how timely that famous refrain attributed to Sojourner Truth remains: “Ain’t I a woman?”

Of Ray Rice and Aunt Gracie’s Black Eyes

Stephane Dunn

TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN My Aunt Gracie is one of my mother’s 10 sisters, the one with the gentle half smile. She’s always been a favored sister and aunt, beloved in our family for her sweetness and generosity and her quiet, seemingly eternal good nature. But sealed in my mind’s eye is an image […]

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