Neesha Powell-Ingabire
Author of Come By Here. Journalist. Essayist. Community & cultural organizer.
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Buy my debut book, Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia's Geechee Coast, from Hub City Press
Buy my debut book, Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia's Geechee Coast, from Hub City Press
In Come By Here, Powell-Ingabire reckons with their home’s collective history and their own history as a truth-telling exercise in line with Audre Lorde’s advice: “It is better to speak.”
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Come By Here Press
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Bookshelf: Nonfiction and historical fiction top fall reading list of Southern books
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Bookshelf: Nonfiction and historical fiction top fall reading list of Southern books
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Journalist who grew up on Georgia coast explores Gullah Geechee roots in new book
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Journalist who grew up on Georgia coast explores Gullah Geechee roots in new book
Black Joy x Reckon - Movement journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire on saving Gullah Geechee Futures
Black Joy x Reckon - Movement journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire on saving Gullah Geechee Futures
Black Joy editory Minda Honey invited Neesha Powell-Ingabire, author of "Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast," to chat about what it means to be from a place define by tragedy, recovering your roots and dreams of Geechee futures.
(Book)ed and Busy Book Club Book Chat
(Book)ed and Busy Book Club Book Chat
Book Riot - 10 New Nonfiction Books Out in September You Need to Read
Book Riot - 10 New Nonfiction Books Out in September You Need to Read
From an environmentalist memoir to essays about the power of video games, these are the ten best new nonfiction books out in September.
Chapter 16 - Come By Here review by Tonya Abari
Chapter 16 - Come By Here review by Tonya Abari
On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was murdered while jogging in the Brunswick, Georgia, neighborhood of Satilla Shores. The racially motivated crime made nat…
Community RX - A Story about Belonging
Community RX - A Story about Belonging
C-SPAN - Author Discussion on Family Stories and Southern History
C-SPAN - Author Discussion on Family Stories and Southern History
The Daily Yonder - Q&A: Identity-Making on Georgia's Geechee Coast
The Daily Yonder - Q&A: Identity-Making on Georgia's Geechee Coast
Electric Literature - 15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Fall
Electric Literature - 15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Fall
Georgia College & State University - Exploring Identity and Social Justice in Coastal Georgia
Georgia College & State University - Exploring Identity and Social Justice in Coastal Georgia
GCSU - MFA alumna aspires to be the change
GCSU - MFA alumna aspires to be the change
GPB/PBS/NPR - Atlanta journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire reflects on her Geechee roots in new memoir
GPB/PBS/NPR - Atlanta journalist Neesha Powell-Ingabire reflects on her Geechee roots in new memoir
GPB/PBS/NPR - Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast by Neesha Powell-Ingabire featured on Narrative Edge
GPB/PBS/NPR - Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast by Neesha Powell-Ingabire featured on Narrative Edge
Ms. Magazine - Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024
Ms. Magazine - Reads for the Rest of Us: The Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2024
Ms. Magazine - September 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us
Ms. Magazine - September 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us
The Peach Pit - Neesha Powell-Ingabire: An Open Conversation with the Author of Come By Here
The Peach Pit - Neesha Powell-Ingabire: An Open Conversation with the Author of Come By Here
Poets & Writers Magazine - The New Nonfiction 2024
Poets & Writers Magazine - The New Nonfiction 2024
Poets & Writers' New Nonfiction 2024 Virtual Reading
Poets & Writers' New Nonfiction 2024 Virtual Reading
Publishers Weekly - Come By Here review
Publishers Weekly - Come By Here review
Publishers Weekly - The Big Indie Books of Fall 2024
Publishers Weekly - The Big Indie Books of Fall 2024
Southern Review of Books - Best Southern Books of September 2024
Southern Review of Books - Best Southern Books of September 2024
Study Hall Subscriber Book Club - Neesha Powell-Ingabire’s Memoir “Come By Here”
Study Hall Subscriber Book Club - Neesha Powell-Ingabire’s Memoir “Come By Here”
WABE/PBS/NPR - Author Neesha Powell-Ingabire reflects on Brunswick upbringing in new memoir
WABE/PBS/NPR - Author Neesha Powell-Ingabire reflects on Brunswick upbringing in new memoir
Write or Die Magazine - 35 Books We Can’t Wait to Read: September 2024
Write or Die Magazine - 35 Books We Can’t Wait to Read: September 2024
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Recent Writings
After 100 Days of Protest, Writers and Photographers Reflect on What They’ve Witnessed (Harper's Bazaar)
After 100 Days of Protest, Writers and Photographers Reflect on What They’ve Witnessed (Harper's Bazaar)
Georgia funding anti-abortion centers posing as clinics puts pregnant people at risk (Prism)
Georgia funding anti-abortion centers posing as clinics puts pregnant people at risk (Prism)
Organizers fight to defund anti-abortion centers that use false advertising and misinformation to trick pregnant people into using their clinics
How Medicaid expansion could help relieve Georgia’s reproductive health care crisis (Prism)
How Medicaid expansion could help relieve Georgia’s reproductive health care crisis (Prism)
Georgia and 11 other states have barred the expansion of the public health insurance program for low-income people since its inclusion in the ACA
How this 150-year-old Gullah Geechee farm on Georgia’s coast is driven by ancestral culture (Black Farmers' Network)
How this 150-year-old Gullah Geechee farm on Georgia’s coast is driven by ancestral culture (Black Farmers' Network)
By: Denechia “Neesha” Powell-Ingabire Gilliard Farms in Brunswick, Georgia is pulsing with life. A coop filled with chickens soon to be sold through a CSA. Pastel eggs soon to be sold, too. Five spotted kunekune pigs. A teaching area where they experiment with crops. Mint, milk thistle, turmeric, aloe, lavender ...
How radical feminist politics shaped one of ATL's most beloved neighborhoods: The history of Little Five Points’ little feminist press (Scalawag)
How radical feminist politics shaped one of ATL's most beloved neighborhoods: The history of Little Five Points’ little feminist press (Scalawag)
How radical feminist politics shaped one of ATL’s most beloved neighborhoods.
John Lewis’ legacy: Four Southern states are still battling for voter rights (Scalawag)
John Lewis’ legacy: Four Southern states are still battling for voter rights (Scalawag)
The outcome of the November election hinges on whether activists in the South are successful in the struggle for voting rights.
Meet five Black and Brown Southerners running for office to change the system (Scalawag)
Meet five Black and Brown Southerners running for office to change the system (Scalawag)
Names Not Lost: Racial Terror Lynching, Past and Present (A Blade of Grass)
Names Not Lost: Racial Terror Lynching, Past and Present (A Blade of Grass)
Organizers in Ahmaud Arbery’s community celebrate guilty verdict and continue to fight for systemic change (Prism)
Organizers in Ahmaud Arbery’s community celebrate guilty verdict and continue to fight for systemic change (Prism)
Smell something, tell something: How Black residents in coastal Georgia are holding polluters accountable (Southerly)
Smell something, tell something: How Black residents in coastal Georgia are holding polluters accountable (Southerly)
The Georgia town that was home to Ahmaud Arbery has an environmental racism problem (Prism)
The Georgia town that was home to Ahmaud Arbery has an environmental racism problem (Prism)
The Supreme Court LGBTQ+ Ruling Is Just the Beginning (YES! Magazine)
The Supreme Court LGBTQ+ Ruling Is Just the Beginning (YES! Magazine)
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack hit the road in rural Georgia to talk about historic debt relief for Black farmers. The audience was skeptical. (The Counter)
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack hit the road in rural Georgia to talk about historic debt relief for Black farmers. The audience was skeptical. (The Counter)
Water Is Life: Black coastal Georgians remain resilient in the face of environmental peril (Oxford American)
Water Is Life: Black coastal Georgians remain resilient in the face of environmental peril (Oxford American)
What life is like for Black sex workers during the pandemic (Prism)
What life is like for Black sex workers during the pandemic (Prism)
Oral Histories
My ECO-TERRA CHRONICLES Interview with Hermina Glass-Hill
My ECO-TERRA CHRONICLES Interview with Hermina Glass-Hill
Welcome to ECO-TERRA CHRONICLES: Storytelling of Ecological Injustice on the Land. Led by GIPL's Coastal Engagement & Environmental Justice Organizer, Hermin...
Ode to Summer Series: A Write to Historical Preservation (discussion between me & Helen Ladson)
Ode to Summer Series: A Write to Historical Preservation (discussion between me & Helen Ladson)
Helen Ladson interviews Denechia Powell-Ingabire, author of Come by Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia's Geechee Coast. A fellow Gullah Geechee descendant, Denechia recalls a historic tour with Helen and how the experience provided inspiration and insight to her native home. Denechia shares how the Georgia Coast has served as a place of refuge and reclamation of Self.
Solidarity with Sapelo Island, Ga.
READ & SHARE: A bill in Georgia could disenfranchise descendants of enslaved Africans on Sapelo Island (by Alexandra Martinez for Prism)
READ & SHARE: A bill in Georgia could disenfranchise descendants of enslaved Africans on Sapelo Island (by Alexandra Martinez for Prism)
The Geechee community has been on Sapelo Island for 13 generations. Just 30 descendants of the original 44 enslaved families remain
READ & SHARE: Meet the man trying to save the dwindling Gullah Geechee island community, settled by his enslaved ancestors (by Christopher Harress for Reckon)
READ & SHARE: Meet the man trying to save the dwindling Gullah Geechee island community, settled by his enslaved ancestors (by Christopher Harress for Reckon)
There were once over a dozen small communities on Sapelo Island. Hog Hammock is all that remains.
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