Allyson Johnson is an actress and singer who began performing in her hometown of Chicago at age twelve as co-anchor of Bubble Gum Digest, a weekly children's TV news program, for which she won an Emmy Award. After earning a degree in psychology from Brown University, she moved to New York where she worked as a social worker before shifting to a career in television and radio. As a professional voice-over actress for more than twelve years, she has recorded countless commercials, promos, audiobooks, narrations, and animation series.
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, a...[SEE MORE]