In two weeks, my daughter will be 3 years old. And then, two weeks after her birthday, if things happen when we’re…

In the weeks before the midterm elections, America was rocked by three separate acts of domestic terrorism. One,…

10. To direct passive-aggressive subs at significant others.

Yesterday afternoon, while searching “black man calls police” and “calling police black person” on iStock—to find a…

Like most black people with a modicum of sense and a willingness to continue their streak of consecutive years…

The NBA has successfully branded itself as the professional sports league that embraces progressive politics and the…

I have never been a big Halloween person. As a kid, I went trick-or-treating because that what everyone else and…

Although Squirrel Hill, the Pittsburgh community where the white nationalist terrorist attack on the Tree of Life…

Even for a 2018 filled with tragedy and terror, last week was particularly brutal. There were the assassination…

Cesar Sayoc, a suspect in the series of mail bombs sent to prominent Democrats and outspoken critics of President…

Sentient vat of recycled Great Value Wite-Out Megyn Kelly appears to be losing her job very soon. Perhaps it will…

There has never been a time in American history when they haven’t used violent force to scare, bully, intimate,…

There’s this guy I know. His name is Famen Hung. We hoop together a few times a week. And despite being 39—and…

“Who here is white?” asked Miss Sumpter, the 3rd-grade social studies teacher at Millbrooks Elementary School in…

To my knowledge, I have never wanted to be white. I have, on occasion, pretended to be white, which is what happened…

After watching the fourth quarter of last night’s explosive Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets game live, and…

You need a flow chart to keep it all straight.

With his devastating and resplendent and transcendent Heavy, Kiese Laymon conjured, created and gave us a thing that…

Before flying there for Essence Fest in July, I’d never been to New Orleans. Since then, I’ve been there twice, once…

I have either run out of things to think and say about the things Kanye West is (presumably) thinking and…