“A cultural icon.” —Trevor Noah
Rebecca Carroll is a writer, cultural critic, and creative collaborator. She is the curator and executive producer of the acclaimed live event and audio series, In Love and Struggle, which shares the experiences of Black women and nonbinary people through monologues, music, and humor. The third and most recent installment of the series, In Love and Struggle: The Future is Around Us, was performed live at the New York City’s Minetta Lane Theatre in December 2023, and featured performances by iconic actress and singer/songwriter Cree Summer, comedian Zainab Johnson, and legendary rock vocalist, Nona Hendryx, among other luminaries. A recording of the event will be released in March 2024 as an Audible Original.
Rebecca is the host of the podcasts Come Through with Rebecca Carroll: 15 conversations about race in a pivotal year for America, and the multi-award-winning Billie Was a Black Woman, a companion audio narrative to the 2021 film, The United States Vs. Billie Holiday.
Rebecca is an Emmy award-winning interviewer, and the author of several interview-based books about Blackness and race in America, including the award-winning Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America, and I Know What the Red Clay Looks: The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers, the latter of which will be rereleased in December 2024 by Haymarket Books as an updated, 30th anniversary edition. Her critically acclaimed memoir, Surviving the White Gaze, has been optioned by Killer Films, with Rebecca attached to write and develop for episodic TV.
Rebecca’s writing has been published in the New York Times, The Guardian, Esquire, Essence, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post, among many other national publications. She is a co-founder and Editor-at-Large for The Meteor media collective, a group of journalists, artists, filmmakers, and media leaders who believe in the power of storytelling to advance gender and racial justice and equity.
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