Reniqua Allen's first book, It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America, about black millennials and upward mobility was released in 2019. The Washington Post called the work a "a vital book" and "a necessary reminder that this post-racial generation is anything but."
Allen has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, BuzzFeed, Quartz, The New Republic, Teen Vogue, Glamour and more, and she has produced a range of films, vide, and radio for PBS, MSNBC, WYNC, the American Museum of Natural History and HBO. She has also appeared as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the CBC and C-SPAN.
In the fall of 2019, Allen will be a Visiting Scholar at the City University of New York while she completes a Ph.D in American Studies from Rutgers University. Her dissertation looks at how black culture has and continues to engage with the idea of the American Dream. She lives in the South Bronx.
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