The summer before tenth grade, I created my own Shakespeare camp. I was the sole camper and sole counselor in the two-week program, where I immersed myself in “Romeo and Juliet,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” “Julius Caesar,” and “Othello.” The camp started on the day that the high school English department chair singlehandedly blocked my enrollment in the advanced placement program. Mrs. B explained to my mother that I...
‘Cowboy Carter’ is complex. So is Beyoncé. So am I.
Psychologist and theologian Chanequa Walker-Barnes encounters her tenth grade self in Beyoncé’s latest album, "Cowboy Carter."
Cowboy Carter main cover art. Photograph by Blair Caldwell.
