Public writing & Interviews
PUBLIC WRITING
2021 “Read Kyle T. Mays’ Author Note for An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States” Penguin Random House Education.
2021 “Professor spotlights Black–Indigenous solidarity in new book” UCLA News Room.
2021 “Representation and Black & Hip Hop Culture in Reservation Dogs” Ethnomusicology Review.
2020 “Native American Hip Hop: Rhymes and Stories from the City to the Rez.” The Source Op Ed.
2020 “What Alexis de Tocqueville Told Us About Democracy and the Future of Black and Native Americans.”
2020 “Hip Hop Democracy and the future of our freedom.” The Source Op Ed,
2020 “Malcolm X warned us about the pitfalls of Black celebrities as leaders.” Washington Post Op Ed,
2019 “Words that Matter: Black and Indigenous Solidarity and the Right to Language.”
2017 “I ghost dance over drums/my music speaks to the young”: Thoughts on Settler Colonialism, Contemporary Politics & Culture, & the Rise of the Indigenous Hip Hop Millennials.”
2017 Indigenous Genocide and Black Liberation: A Short Critique of “I Am Not Your Negro”--with Love.
2016 The Souls of White-Indians: A Letter to My White Indian Friend.
2015 Can We Live—And Be Modern?: Decolonization, Indigenous Modernity, and Hip Hop.
2014 How Obama’s ‘Acting White’ Blunder Erased Indigenous Concerns. Indian Country Today Media Network.
Media Appearances
2021 “Black History is American History.” Capradio: Insight, NPR Interview, February 8.
2021 “400 Souls: A Community History of African America,” California African American Museum.”
In conversation with Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain, and Martha Jones, February 4.
2021 “Keeping Indigenous elders safe from COVID-19 a critical part of preserving culture.”
2020 Distinct Histories, Shared Struggles: A Conversation with Prof. Kyle Mays on Indigenous People’s Day. History Then and Now Podcast. Luskin School of Public Policy, UCLA. 12 October.
2019 “How Hip Hop Artists are defining a modern Indigenous identity.” CBC. May 05, 2019.