Rebecca Carroll on Sticking to Your Own Story

“What I knew for sure — and this comes with age, with being the Black mother of a Black son— I knew that my experience was the truth! Because I was the only one having it!”

Rebecca Carroll is a writer, creative consultant, editor-at-large, and host of the podcast Come Through with Rebecca Carroll: 15 Essential Conversations about Race in a Pivotal Year for America (WNYC Studios). Most recently, she was a cultural critic at WNYC, and a critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times. Her memoir, Surviving the White Gaze (Simon & Schuster, Feb 2021), has been optioned by MGM Studios