Rebecca Carroll

Rebecca Carroll is a writer, cultural critic, and host of the podcasts Come Through with Rebecca Carroll (WNYC Studios), and Billie Was a Black Woman . Her writing has been published in The New York Times , The Atlantic , Essence , New York magazine, and The Guardian , where she was a regular columnist for two years. A former cultural critic for WNYC, and critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times , she is an editor-at-large for The Meteor media collective, as well as the author of several...See more

Rebecca Carroll is a writer, cultural critic, and host of the podcasts Come Through with Rebecca Carroll (WNYC Studios), and Billie Was a Black Woman . Her writing has been published in The New York Times , The Atlantic , Essence , New York magazine, and The Guardian , where she was a regular columnist for two years. A former cultural critic for WNYC, and critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times , she is an editor-at-large for The Meteor media collective, as well as the author of several interview-based books about race in America, including the award-winning Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America . She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son. See less