This morning, I was wheeling my shopping cart past a magazine stand in Whole Foods Market and caught a glimpse of a magazine cover featuring a smiling President Joe Biden. He stood tall in his trademark dark blue suit, arms crossed, and his eye twinkled, just a bit like I…

(TW: racism, fat-antagonism, sexual assault, colorism, and spoilers) Like tens of millions of viewers around the world, I treated myself to Season One of Shondaland’s adaptation of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series as a reward for surviving the year 2020. Always somewhat behind the curve when it comes to popular tv…

My children are naturally joyful and exuberant, and much more outwardly affectionate with each other than I’ve ever been with my own three dearly beloved siblings. …

Black Voters’ Limited Negotiating Power By Carliss Chatman* and Marissa Jackson Sow* Former Vice President Joe Biden owes Black voters a debt he cannot pay. South Carolina Rep. …

Detroit may be changing but it is still full of Black culture and history — Last month we published a special series on what it’s like to be Black in the Midwest, and invited you to share your own experiences. Following is one of several submissions by Medium writers that we are excited to share with you. I’ve always had this thing about real estate…

On Monday, October 14, 2019, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson published a brilliant, passionate opinion essay in the Post titled, “What can a black person do to keep from getting killed by police in this country?” The essay’s opening phrase was, “This is a serious question.” Mr. Robinson asked this…

Empire is often durable and always unsustainable. It thrives on homicide (including many, many, many murders), and therefore and thereby commits suicide. It is self-destruction, slow-brewed, over time and at…

Empire is durable, yet thoroughly unsustainable. It thrives on homicides (including many, many, many murders), and therefore and thereby commits suicide. It is self-destruction, slow-brewed, over time and at the…

Black Pain and Possibility: On Victor Blackwell’s Tears To be a Black or Brown person under the Trump regime is to live a trauma-informed, terror-infused life every day. …