A decade ago I was 15 and Trayvon was 17. We could have been friends. Not friends in the sense that we had a whole lot in common but in the sense that we where peers. Young Black boys. I wish that I could say that I became radicalized by…

Almost nine months ago, I started drafting an essay about Black Rage. The coined term was in a book of the same name about how the country created a specific type of resentment in Black Americans. The essay wasn’t a review of this now 53-year-old book — partly because I…

Death is inevitable. Insofar that most elders welcome and speak to it well before it is their time. But death is to assume that one will die of natural causes, or old age as we say, that it may greet you. That you would be so lucky to slowly drift…

In 1921 one of the largest singular race massacres happened in the United States in the Greenwood community of Tulsa, OK. Tuesday was the centennial. Like many things that revolve around Black life — my life — I don’t remember when I learned about the destruction of this Black community…

In our world where Black people’s lives are the hardest, the last month has been a reminder on a national scale that Black people have known as our birthright. It’s been a year since the murder of Breonna Taylor, the murder trial of George Floyd has begun, and the newest…

I was 19 years-old when Trump was elected President of the United States. I was writing at my first publication — The Cougar — for the opinion section and wrote a piece on my thoughts of the results. Looking back 71 articles and four years later, I’m laughing at myself. …

Listening to and reading old interviews and books surrounding the Black community from the 50s to the 70s, you will hear the term “the race problem.” Used colloquially, the race problem is referred to as the plight facing Black Americans. …

In the storming of the capitol building — in all of the imagery, tweets and coverage — the one thing that stands out is the rioter Elizabeth, from Knoxville, TN. Leaving the capitol after claiming that she was maced, she says “we’re storming the capitol it’s a revolution.” Revolution; as…

At the beginning of this new decade as a country we aimed to start anew and create our own roaring renaissance. Now more than half-way through the year, we have seen that to create something new, we must destroy what is old and in the way. …