Sometimes, a toothache is more than a toothache — it’s a wake-up call — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. It was a pain like nothing I’d ever felt. The type of pain you don’t wish on your worst enemy — so severe it caused me to hunch over, eyes watering…

A century and a half after the 15th Amendment was ratified, voters have never had less faith that their vote would be counted — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. Earlier this week, I was going through my normal morning routine — drinking iced coffee, looking out the window, settling my mind for the day ahead — when my phone rang…

Biden is a skilled debater, but he’s never gone up against someone so unorthodox and willing to lie — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. While presidential debates tend to be a reserved, even genteel affair, it’s difficult not to think that tonight’s first showdown between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will feel a lot more…

Despite all the president’s tweets, the NFL’s acknowledgment of player protest will bring the message of racial justice to millions — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. Fall is my favorite time of the year. There is an easiness to the season. Crisp weather, dope jackets, a relaxing drive up the Hudson Parkway with the fall foliage coloring…

T’Challa rests in power, but a nation of powerful Black men have donned the cape — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. As one Black superhero, Chadwick Boseman, rests in power, another group of Black men have worked to don the cape. Last week, the Milwaukee Bucks adorned their cape and accepted the…

It’s not an easy conversation to have, but it’s an important one — Sen. Kamala Harris has a problem with Black men. Rather, Black men have a problem with Sen. Kamala Harris. Since her selection as presidential candidate Joe Biden’s running mate, I’ve received a deluge of phone calls, text messages, and WhatsApp group chats from Black men — only two of whom…

Black purchasing power is growing far faster than its White counterpart — and now we need to figure out how to leverage it — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. Since March, when New York City first shuttered its offices, restaurants, and most retail, I’ve done virtually all my shopping online. I was never an online shopper, but now I don’t…

Thanks to the digital divide, remote learning threatens to jeopardize a generation of at-risk youth — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. I’m a glass-is-always-half-full kind of guy. Always have been. My whole life, I’ve accepted a challenge just so I could find its solution. When fear rears its head, I acknowledge the…

Clinging to the advantages of Whiteness is a hell of a drug — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. A Black man will never know what it’s like to be in an all-White room — because it will no longer be all White. Conversely, a White man will never know…