In April Essence magazine ran an interview with Toni Morrison by Farah Jasmine Griffin, director of the CSSD working group "Toward and Intellectual History of Black Women" and William B. Ransford Professor of English & Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia.

Morrison, who has just published her eleventh novel, God Help the Child, discussed with Griffin the themes of colorism, racism, and conceptions of beauty, which her latest work grapples with.

Read the interview here.