Convicted ex-cop Derek Chauvin seemed genuinely stunned to learn he actually will be held responsible for the murder of a Black man — For an instant, Black America and Derek Chauvin aligned in a singular emotion: disbelief. It flashed in Chauvin’s eyes just as the weight of decades of unjust acquittals was shifted from our shoulders onto the murderer’s, where it had always belonged. The convicted killer cop couldn’t conceive that a jury…

This is a simple fix for the police and yet, here we are again — There aren’t adequate words for those who use their privilege to harm children. Even in an era as divisive as the present, the part of our social contract that dictates almost universal disdain for abusers of children remains intact. I say almost, because exceptions are too often granted to those…

Dismantling injustice is a marathon, not a sprint — Six days into the presidency, Joe Biden made a promise unlike any previous U.S. head of state: Under his administration, every branch of the federal government would work toward achieving racial equity in the country. Now we all know that promises made don’t always equal promises kept. But even presidents…

The racial arrest disparity between insurrection vs. George Floyd is not shocking and is more par for the racist course — I intended to use this space to be profound about the police response to last week’s attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol. That won’t happen. …

It’s been time for her to go for a long time — The WNBA must dispose of Kelly Loeffler. Now. If you’ve been hiding the past few months, Loeffler is Georgia’s soon-to-be former U.S. senator who just lost her seat in historic fashion to Rev. Raphael Warnock, making him the first Black Democrat elected to represent a Southern state and making her…

If the flimsy myths propping up Trumpism were pillars, the one that fell the hardest in today’s riot at the U.S. Capitol was that of the “law and order” presidency. In defiance of both logic and the president’s rhetoric, thousands of his supporters ran lawless and unchecked into the Rotunda…

Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri deserved better from law enforcement — An underplayed aspect of police brutality is the largely ignored fact that some cops lie. It’s not just the systemic violence, but the casual and pervasive dishonesty behind the badge that further degrades the victims. Timothy Loehmann killed 12 year-old Tamir Rice in a Cleveland park two seconds after pulling…

Mackenzie Scott’s $1.7 billion donations are appreciated by those who received, but what about the 100+ universities that didn’t? — Nuance is lost on Twitter, so of course, MacKenzie Scott’s $140 million donations to six historically Black colleges split the social platform into factions. On one side, grads and supporters of Howard, Hampton, Morehouse, Spelman, Tuskegee, and Xavier universities, the HBCUs getting windfalls out of Scott’s overall $1.7 billion in…

An ownership change should be next — You could write a comic history of Washington, D.C., by listing things that didn’t outlive the name of the city’s NFL franchise. The racist epithet survived the removed-on-Juneteenth statue of team founder George Preston Marshall, who was the reason one of America’s Blackest cities was the last to integrate its…