PUBLIC WRITING
The Washington Post – We listened to people in highly policed U.S. communities
Vox – Why white people keep calling the cops on black Americans
Charlotte Talks – Having The Cops Called For #LivingWhileBlack
The New York Times – Did Blacks Really Endorse the 1994 Crime Bill?
The Conversation – Baltimore riots: the fire this time and the fire last time and the time between
The New York Times – Is the United States a ‘Racial Democracy’?
Baltimore Sun – High incarceration may be more harmful than high crime
The Conversation – Charging media for using police-shooting video may be the price of equal justice
The Marshall Project – The Missed Opportunity of Robert Woodson: One conservative black activist’s campaign for community crime control
Slate – Protest Is Democracy at Work: We should be grateful for people who take to the streets
The Boston Review – “The Only Government I Know”
Balkinization – The Missing Lesson of Ferguson: Conduct ≠ Contact
Yale Daily News – MATOS & WEAVER: Recognize, revalue and rid
Yale Alumni Magazine – The Next Four Years
On Ferguson in Theory & Event – Black Citizenship and Summary Punishment: A Brief History to the Present
PUBLIC SPEAKING
at Columbia University
Annual Reviews Shot of Science
Let Them Eat Tweets
at Brown University
Discussing inequality and the criminal justice system
Opening remarks for DC Dox film festival at Hopkins Bloomberg Center for Alabama Solution film (2025)
Panelist, Stories that Matter screening of Daughters film at Hopkins Bloomberg Center (2025)
The Artist’s Voice: Titus Kaphar in Conversation with Mika’il DeVeaux, Tina Reynolds and Vesla Mae Weaver – Thursday, February 26, 2015 // 7:00 PM 9:00 PM // The Studio Museum in Harlem144 W 125th St New York, NY, 10027
PBS/American Experience documentary, The Riot Report, aired on PBS in 2024
Keynote address, The University at Albany’s Michael J. Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, 22nd Annual Lecture (2024)
Andrew Ross, Tomasso Bardelli, and Aiyuba Thomas book Abolition Labor at Red Emma’s Bookstore – in conversation with Vesla Weaver (2024)
JHU Magazine, “Writing Within Prison Walls” (2024)
Baltimore Magazine, “The American Prison Writing Archive Moves to Baltimore” (January 2024)
New York Times, “For the American Prison Writing Archive, a ‘Shadow Canon’ Sheds Light” (Arts Section feature article), 2023
Johns Hopkins University, Arts and Sciences Magazine, “Justice For All?” (Spring 2023) WYPR “On The Record” broadcast, “Bearing witness to incarceration,” (April 2023)
Financial Times, Behind the Money podcast, “A history of police funding” (2020)
Pacific Standard, “Millennials Are More Likely to Face Arrest Than Gen X’ers” (2019)
Major coverage in the Wall Street Journal, The Nation, USA Today, Time Magazine, Vox, New York Times (on policing and the fate of the republic and Amanda Taub’s The Interpreter and Jamelle Bouie’s articles, “Where Democracy Isn’t Very Democratic” and “We Construct and Reconstruct Race”),The Marshall Project, The New Republic, The Chicago Tribune, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Gothamist, the Urban Institute, and the Center for American Progress.
