August 14, 2015
Rather than berate black people for their lack of enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders, perhaps you should ask us why. Why am I tired of Bernie...
blog
July 31, 2015
Two years ago, I was riding my bike through Prospect Park in Brooklyn. As I was picking up speed on the downhill slope, a police car...
Reviews
July 29, 2015
On May 13, 1985, one of the blacker days of the U.S. war on its domestic black population, the Philadelphia Police Department undertook the...
blog
July 16, 2015
“The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.” —Ida B. Wells, 1892. Ida B. Wells, head-and...
Opinion
January 16, 2015
“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet...
Art
January 8, 2015
Very few Americans know that Dred Scott and Michael Brown are buried within miles of each other. The first, a slave, who sued for his...
column
December 19, 2014
"A Typical Negro" is the title of a 1962 newspaper article narrating the story of an enslaved man, Gordon, and his escape from slavery to...
blog
December 5, 2014
As Ferguson burned with a raw rage against racial inequality and institutionalized violence this summer, legendary black American writer...
blog
July 23, 2014
Two months ago I wrote a farewell op-ed for my school's newspaper, The Herald . The piece was addressed to Harold Washington College's...