Charlottesville — if not you, then hoo?
“Overnight, Charlottesville had become known for something for which it never wanted to be known.” Oh, my dearest Charlottesville, there...
Keep Austin…White?
After taking a picture with my colleagues to emphasize the importance of focusing on Black children at the Society for Research on Child...
The Rose in me Sees the Rose in you | Racist Roles Highlighted by Get Out
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...
Why "I Am Not Your Negro" just snatched my entire life
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,...
Sanctioned Intolerance
The presidential election of 2016 was an unprecedented battle between two unlikely contenders. In one corner, a political veteran who,...
Bring back the experts.
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...
"That's mine": Sexual assault is no laughing matter
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...
What if HE Becomes President?: The Adolescent Take on Today’s Politics
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...
Out of the mouths of babes
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...
Law(lessness) & Order
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...