Dan Kois

Dan Kois is the author of Facing Future, a book in Continuum’s 33 1/3 series about the Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo’ole.

He is a senior editor at Slate and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine.

Guest Appearances

June 23, 2016

Aisha Harris (Slate staff writer) returns and brings along Dan Kois (Slate senior editor) to join Kamau and Kevin to talk about The Black Film Canon, a list of the 50 Greatest Films by Black Directors they both compiled for Slate. This is literally Black People Homework so get on this y’all!

Check out the full list here: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/cover_story/2016/05/the_50_greatest_films_by_black_directors.html

This episode is sponsored by Blue Apron.