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Award-winning journalist Danyel Smith is author of the acclaimed Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop, and creator/host of the NAACP Image Award-nominated Black Girl Songbook, a Spotify Original podcast that centers the sounds and stories of Black women in music. A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Danyel is a Stanford University John S. Knight fellow (2014), a 2021 Yaddo fellow, and a 2024 MacDowell Fellow. She was editor of Billboard, as well as the first woman and first Black person to serve as editor-in-chief of VIBE. Danyel has written two novels, and appears as an expert on all major networks, in countless documentaries, and has shared her thoughts on culture in spaces such as the Library of Congress, Amazon Music, the Grammy Museum, Yale, the University of Southern California, and New York University. Danyel has interviewed legendary figures from Whitney Houston to Lena Horne to Janet Jackson to Keyshia Cole to Mariah Carey to SZA to New Edition to DJ Premier to Gladys Knight to Usher to George Clinton to Simone Biles to Beyoncé. And according to the New Yorker, "Danyel is one of the nation's most astute chroniclers of pop and hip-hop culture."

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The Fall of Diddy Poster

The Fall of Diddy Mini-Series2025Self - Former Editor-in-Chief, VIBE Magazine, Self - Journalist & Actress

Luther: Never Too Much Poster

Luther: Never Too Much Documentary2024Self

My Generation Poster

My Generation Mini-Series2024Self

Black Pop: Celebrating the Power of Black Culture Poster

Black Pop: Celebrating the Power of Black Culture Mini-Series2023Self - Author, Music Historian

Fight the Power How Hip Hop Changed the World Poster

Fight the Power How Hip Hop Changed the World TV Series2023Self

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RapCaviar Presents Mini-Series2023Self - Journalist

Women Who Rock Poster

Women Who Rock TV Series2022Self

Mike Tyson: The Knockout Poster

Mike Tyson: The Knockout TV Series2021Self - Aurthor & Fmr. Culture Lead, 'The Undefeated' ESPN

Soul of a Nation Poster

Soul of a Nation Mini-Series2021Self

Superstar Poster

Superstar Mini-Series2021Self

The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross Poster

The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross TV Series2020Self

The New York Times Presents Poster

The New York Times Presents TV Series2020Self - Former Editor in Chief of Billboard magazine

Hip-Hop Evolution Poster

Hip-Hop Evolution TV Series2016Self

Bad 25 Documentary2012Self

Ebony Fashion Fair: 50 Years of Style TV Movie2008Self

E:60 TV Series2007Self

Final 24 Poster

Final 24 TV Series2006Self - Editor-in-Chief, Vibe Magazine

VH1 Rock Docs Poster

VH1 Rock Docs TV Series2006Self

And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop Poster

And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop Mini-Series2004Self

R&B '97: Year in Review TV Special1998Self

E! True Hollywood Story Poster

E! True Hollywood Story TV Series1996Self - Editor in Chief

Charlie Rose Poster

Charlie Rose TV Series1991Self - Guest

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Happy and You Know It Poster

Happy and You Know It Feature Film2025

The Fall of Diddy Poster

The Fall of Diddy Mini-Series2025

Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary Poster

Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary Feature Film2024

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