Published inZORAThe Rise and Reimagining of MTVMTV is 40 years old, found its fortune with Gen X, and has reinvented itself for every generation sinceAug 1, 2021A response icon2Aug 1, 2021A response icon2
Published inZORAI Will Not Change My Name Because You Can’t Pronounce ItThe roots of name discrimination are an extension of the harms caused by slavery and colonialismFeb 4, 2021A response icon33Feb 4, 2021A response icon33
Published inZORAThe Cities Where Gentrification and Covid-19 CollideA look at the crises impacting people of color in Miami, Oakland, and Brooklyn, where residents fight to protect their communitiesSep 17, 2020Sep 17, 2020
Published inZORAWhat Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Gets Wrong About Blackness and NigeriaShe has often said she became Black in the United States, but what does this really mean?Oct 31, 2019A response icon16Oct 31, 2019A response icon16
Survival and Other Important MattersNote: You can listen to an audio of this piece here: Survival and Other Important Matters.Dec 19, 2016A response icon2Dec 19, 2016A response icon2
Things you can do to Help Haiti right now, hit by Hurricane MatthewI initally just wrote this on my Facebook as a way to answer the question, “What can we do?” when disaster strikes in a place. I thought I…Oct 7, 2016Oct 7, 2016
Mourning the Loss of My 12,000 TweetsYesterday afternoon, I attempted to use an app to delete a majority of my tweets, hoping to keep my “Twitter memory” within one year. It’s…Oct 4, 2016Oct 4, 2016
Rudyard Kipling is My DemonIt is always such a disappointment when we discover that people we admire — both those in the present as well as the past — held or hold…Sep 12, 2016A response icon31Sep 12, 2016A response icon31
A Note on BrexitWhen you consider the heightened ethno-nationalism sweeping the West currently, Brexit isn’t surprising. On a personal level however, I…Jun 24, 2016Jun 24, 2016
Do We Silence Moderate Voices?Privileging Loudness at the Expense of ModerationOct 17, 2013Oct 17, 2013
