The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.
Here's to Chancel Mbemba & Cedric Bakambu, Noah Sadiki & Samuel Moutoussamy, Yoane Wissa & Axel Tuanzebe and every Congolese supporter traveling to Houston, Guadalajara, and Atlanta for their group stage matches, and to every supporter watching at home. Everywhere. Everywhere.
The Black List’s public portal for submissions opened last Monday. It stays open until July 6 or until we hit 2500 submissions, and it looks like the latter will be the constraint.
Just FYI if you plan to submit that way. blcklst.com/programs/the...
I could have easily written 40,000 more.
The World Cup means a lot to many people, but maybe no one more than the members of the Congolese diaspora, thousands of whom traveled to Guadalajara in March in the hopes of seeing their country qualify for the first time in 52 years.
I wrote 4,500 words on the 2026 World Cup qualification playoff for the current issue of Vanity Fair
Today, DR Congo opens its World Cup against Portugal
You may have seen the photos of their iconic arrival, but this is the story of how they got here. www.vanityfair.com/preview/arti...
They tried to break up her district to bury her.
She won the new district in a walk.
And now she’s overperformed every expectation in the Mayoral primary.
Conversation with WSJ Live is available now wherever you crazy kids get your podcast conversations about labor market economics. open.spotify.com/episode/66bc...
Last year, @theblcklst.bsky.social recommended 25 scripts for Nicholl Fellowship consideration from its public portal, <25% of the scripts considered by the Academy.
5 of the 10 finalists were Black List recommendations.
Submissions are open for 2026-2027 now. blcklst.com/nicholl
Every text I send my friends includes a brief bio of myself in case they forgot
The World Cup is the biggest event in human history. This summer, it's coming to North America. But in Guadalajara this spring, as three nations scrapped for a single ticket to the big show, Franklin ...
I've spent months speaking to current & retired Black service members about being part of the military in this political moment. What I found were officers and soldiers despondent at the resurgence of racism, yet often insistent that they were fighting for what this country could be, not what it is.
They devoted their lives to serving the United States. Now the nation’s top military leader is sending the message that they’re not welcome.
from a 2023 article:
"Nithya Raman turned into a political celebrity when she emerged as the face of a rising progressive vanguard to campaign for the Los Angeles Council in 2020... Raman wound up receiving more votes than any council member in the city’s history & [drew] comparisons to AOC."
