Courtney Young
Courtney Young is a Manhattan-based popular culture and political writer. She is especially interested in issues of religion, race, gender, color, and sex within popular culture. She received her B.A in English with a minor in Management from Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga., in 2002. She got my M.A. degree in 2004 from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She's written for publications such as The Grio, The Nation, the Huffington Post, Popmatters, and Ms. Magazine. In 2009, she was selected by the Women’s Media Center as a recipient of the Progressive Women’s Voices Media Fellowship. Follow her on Twiter: @Cocacy
Recent articles by this author:
- Prison Libraries Ban Literature, Raise Controversy
- Hollywood Experiments with Fairy Tales for Adults
- Wanted: Female Playwrights
- Why Chelsea Handler’s Black Penis Jokes Aren’t Funny
- Much Ado About Oscars Diversity
- The ‘Learning’ Channel’s Adventures in Morally Questionable Programming
- Why We Need to Stop the ‘Single Black Woman’ Narrative
- Hollywood’s Casting Ignores People of Color, LGBT, and the Disabled
- Ryan Gosling, Roger Ebert call for new MPAA Guidelines
