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Good morning, and welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained.

Today’s special guest is Jenisha Watts, a senior editor who worked on our Inheritance series exploring “lost Black history” and who recently brought Too $hort and E-40 together to talk about the too-frequent killings in hip-hop. Jenisha first fell into a Viola Davis trance watching Fences, is a proud member of the Beyhive, and cried in her living room watching season three of Love Is Blind.

But first, here are three Sunday reads from The Atlantic:

• The college essay is dead.
• Why is Marjorie Taylor Greene like this?
• The year without germs changed kids.

Culture Survey: Jenisha Watts

Viola Davis. I remember watching and falling into a Viola Davis trance. I left the play wanting to apply the same kind of excellence to my own craft. And I’ll never forget the scene on where her character, Annalise Keating, removes all her makeup and takes off her wig, revealing her natural, untamed kinky hair. It was as if Davis was giving America a peek into the interior world of Black women. []