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“Overnight, Charlottesville had become known for something for which it never wanted to be known.” Oh, my dearest Charlottesville, there...

After taking a picture with my colleagues to emphasize the importance of focusing on Black children at the Society for Research on Child...

If you haven’t gone to see Get Out, what’s wrong with you? I mean, you should probably go right now. *Eye rolls annoyingly* Anywho, my...

I was really looking forward to seeing Raoul Peck's take on James Baldwin's words. I was NOT anticipating leaving the theater as a ghost,...

The presidential election of 2016 was an unprecedented battle between two unlikely contenders. In one corner, a political veteran who,...

As a senior in college, I remember hearing Faheem Rashad Najm on the radio and scrunched my face. His interesting use of "auto-tune" was...

When I was 13 years old, I somehow convinced my mother that going to teen night at "The Warehouse" in Detroit was an okay thing to do. I...

I study racism. I have spent a lot of time talking with children this year about what I do. And, like clockwork, they always end up...

I was equal parts excited and dismayed. I volunteered to speak at my church's career day and engaged with the youngest crowd I'd met thus...

On a holiday weekend, you cannot pry me off of my couch. You could not pay me to look away. When that instinctive DING DING comes at the...