“People are known by the records they keep. If it isn’t in the records, it will be said it didn’t happen. That is what history is: a keeping of records.”
—Alice Walker
Articles
Some of the stories Valerie has written as a journalist~
Goin’ South, Book 2002
Our Eyes Are Watching Halle, Essence 2005
Writing the Life of a Literary Legend, The New Crisis 2003
Black and Blue, Book 2003
The Last Word, Ms. 2000
Looking for Alice, Ms. 1998
Cassandra Wilson: Mississippi Queen, Paste 2008
Finding Southern Comfort, The Oxford American Southern Women Special Issue
The Ritual, African American Review 1993
Enter the Negrotarians, Scholar and Feminist Online 2005
Magazines
The two magazines she founded, EightRock and HealthQuest~
HealthQuest 1996
HealthQuest 1995
Cassandra Wilson, EightRock National Black Arts Festival Special Edition
HealthQuest Fitness Special
Bernice Johnson Reagon, EightRock NBAF Edition
Ayoka Chenzira, EightRock NBAF Edition
Reviews
Some of Valerie's work as a critic~
Waiting to Exhale, Atlanta Journal-Constitution 1992
Ivory Gate, Atlanta Journal Constitution 1992
Liliane, AJC 1994
The Fisher King, AJC 2000
Love, AJC 2003
Lone Wolf, LA Times 2006
Ralph Ellison, LA Times 2007
I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters and Their Craft, Paste 2007
Sulu, Paste 2007
Defying Dixie, LA Times 2008
A Mercy, AJC 2008
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