STORYBOUND: Soraya Nadia McDonald

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Jude Brewer

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4.8 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Soraya Nadia McDonald reads her essay "Wandering In Search of Wakanda", with an original Storybound remix featuring Marco Pavé. Soraya Nadia McDonald is the culture critic for The Undefeated. She writes about pop culture, fashion, the arts, and literature. She is the 2020 winner of the George Jean Nathan prize for dramatic criticism, a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and the runner-up for the 2019 Vernon Jarrett Medal for outstanding reporting on black life. Marco Pavé has forged a twin identity as a champion of indie Southern rap and as an educator working to stimulate community activism and entrepreneurship through the lens of hip hop music and culture. Pavé has opened for Mobb Deep, Waka Flocka Flame, and Young Dolph and worked with GRAMMY Award-winning producers like Carlos Broady. Pavé's work has been written up in outlets like The Source, The Root, and MTV News. In 2017, he released his debut album Welcome to Grc Lnd, which cast a documentarian lens on Memphis’s grassroots activists who were raising their voices in protest of the city’s endemic racism and poverty. In 2018, he was commissioned to turn the album into Memphis’s first-ever rap opera. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.4	Welcome to another episode of Storybound.
0:30.7	This week we have writer Soraya Nadia McDonnell, who will be reading Wondering in Search of Wakanda,
0:36.8	an essay where critics seeks out black utopias and Ain't No Mo,
0:40.9	Beyonce's Homecoming, and David Burns Broadway show.
0:44.6	Grown up in North Carolina and now living in Brooklyn, New York,
0:48.3	Soraya Nadia McDonald is the award-winning cultural critic for the undefeated,
0:53.4	ESPN's premier platform covering race,
0:57.0	sports, and culture.
0:59.0	She's the 2020 winner of the George Jean Nathan Prize for dramatic criticism, a 2020 finalist
1:06.0	for the Pulitzer Prize and Criticism and the runner-up for the 2019 2019 Vernon Jarrett Medal for outstanding reporting on Black Life.
1:14.6	Soraya Nadia McDonald excels at telling the truth about art, society with wit, verve, passion, and purpose.
1:23.6	She will also happily obsess about anything from themes of American imperialism in Black Panther and Watchmen
1:31.0	to why Noma Dumasweeney should be the next Doctor Who to the best episodes of Bob's Burgers.
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