"Lisa Victoria Chapman Jones" is an United States/American writer and journalist, the daughter of poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka (formerly known as LeRoi Jones). Her sister, Dr. Kellie Jones, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.

Jones grew up in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from Yale University and received a MFA in Film from New York University. She joined the staff of the Village Voice in 1984 and wrote for the paper for 15 years. Jones married Kenneth S. Brown in 2004 and their daughter was born in 2005.

Jones is best known for her "Skin Trade" columns in the Village Voice, a selection of which were published as a book, Bulletproof Diva, in 1994. She also co-wrote three books with Spike Lee, all companion books to his films: Uplift the Race: The Construction of School Daze, published in 1988, Do the Right Thing, published in 1989, and Mo' Better Blues, published in 1990. Jones published a memoir, Good Girl in a Bad Dress, in 1999. Her essays have been widely anthologized.

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Personally, I will be a lot more at ease knowing there is a machine at hand for that kind of emergency. Every second counts.

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I'm outraged. I'm in this field of work. We're screaming for help.

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Our code black is for severe weather. We do not have a bomb scare code.

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We're typically not a poor free-throw shooting team. But we'll practice on that before tomorrow's game.

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