I originally wrote this on the day Toni Morrison died, August 5, 2019. I was sitting in a café in Spain, crying, and wishing I had somehow showered her with roses while she was here. Our world is better because of her life. I quit my job last year to…

This is my final letter in a series of essays with my dear friend, Tre Johnson. We started this about Megan Thee Stallion and Kanye and then it transformed into something beautiful, Black culture love letters. You can read his first letter to me here and you can read my…

A letter in a series to my friend, Tre, about Megan Thee Stallion, Kanye, Black womanhood, The Culture, and Black love. You can read Tre’s letter to me here, and below is my letter. Dear Tre, Oh yeah, I remember exactly what 2004 felt like! It felt like freshman year…

A letter to my friend, Tre, about Megan Thee Stallion, Kanye, Black womanhood, and Black love. You can read Tre’s opening letter to me here, and below is my opening letter. Dear Tre, There’s been so much conversation in the past many weeks, months, years, decades, about the protection of…

It’s propaganda, friends, plain and simple. By now, you may have seen that heart warming article about NYPD officers kneeling with protestors or the one about a Michigan officer who put down his baton to high-five protestors and take selfies. I urge you not to share them. As soothing as…

My uncle Roger died in 2017, well before coronavirus. For many years of my childhood, he worked on a garbage truck. …

The first voice you hear on the April 9th episode of The Daily podcast is a white woman talking about the coronavirus in New Orleans. Yanti Turang, a nurse with experience treating other infectious diseases like Ebola, is a transplant to New Orleans from Australia. It is Turang’s voice you…

The truth is the president is an imbecile. We are in the midst of a global pandemic and it is clearer every day that Americans have deprived themselves of the biggest hope of representative democracy. …

There is a way we tell history that leaves Black women stranded. White people tell the story of women’s suffrage in America without the influence of Black women. The right to vote was earned, they say, through the tireless efforts of suffragettes, whose calls for the eugenics of Black women…