The screams come frequent, ballistic salvos that slice through my dreams and rips me from sweet slumber every twenty minutes. “Don’t let me fall, please don’t let me fall.” I’ve heard that exact repetition of words so often I genuinely started to wonder if any others persisted in the English…

Nothing fights more savagely than the human spirit. I traveled all the way to the land where semi-automatic pistols are raffled for five bucks, billiards clubs incongruently blare Fox News from TV screens and Ice Cube from jukeboxes, and 5-alarm acid reflux WhatABurgers are served whole — also known as…

There’s nothing scarier than when your mind becomes a cage of carnage. Your neurons are scorched, leaving them unable to process anything except the overwhelming pain they’re enduring. You’re enduring. No appeals to rationality, no soothing words, no pleas for calm can douse the flame; memory, reason, and coherence all…

As someone whose profession makes constant demands to traffic in reality, I can tell you that too often this world and our society is repulsed by the very notion of the truth. It’s more convenient to live in belief of a world inherently fair and just, than it is to…

Like almost every night, Bill Austin awakens to screams. Nathan is trapped in another nightmare. Bill leaps from his bed and rushes down the hallway. …

The cries rang out in unison throughout Seattle’s Central District. Black Lives Matter!!! And as my own voice joined the chorus of hundreds of other marchers, one next to me gave a heavy sigh. “You can’t go anywhere in Seattle without white people,” it said. …

The following remarks were given at the Northwest Journalist of Color Scholarship Reception on Thursday June 2nd at KIRO TV. In addressing you today, as a fellow journalist of color, I was able to settle on the fact that the most important message I can relay to you is not…

The league’s continued crackdown on protests during the national anthem has left some questioning their fandom. How fitting for America’s most popular sport to perfectly reflect America itself. Along with being ultra-violent, patriarchal, and fearful of complexity, the National Football League has now officially made the exploitation of black bodies…

Struggling with not being an oppressed oppressor in today’s America. That moment when you’re futilely clawing at the boot pressed against your neck as your windpipe collapses may not be an opportune time to notice your own Sorel crushing another’s throat, but in today’s America it’s the ideal hour. I’m…