Published in ZORA·Oct 29, 2019Member-onlyBlack Milwaukeeans Are Ready to Fight for Their CommunitiesFrustrated by empty promises from politicians, the time to mobilize could not be any riper than nowPolitics11 min readPolitics11 min read
Published in Timeline·Aug 2, 2017White Milwaukee lied to itself for decades, and in 1967 the truth came outWhen the Long Hot Summer came to Wisconsin, the reality of race relations was impossible to ignore — BlackLivesMatter9 min readBlackLivesMatter9 min read
Apr 23, 2017When Mercury Retrogrades and News Cycles Fade…*author’s note: So… I wrote this piece in early March for a new site that planned to launch sometime this spring. Ten days ago, the launch was pulled. The thing is… I had thoughts about Jordan Peel’s phenomenal debut, Get Out and black film that I never got to share.*hard…Racism9 min readRacism9 min read
Sep 27, 2016#ProbesSoWhiteJean Grae is dead to me. She has accepted the job of hosting The Golden Probe Awards on October 2nd to bestow recognition on the best and the brightest in the world of misogyny. And once again, I’m hardly surprised that every nominee is white. …Abortion2 min readAbortion2 min read
Published in BuzzFeed Collections·Jul 1, 2016How To Survive A LynchingLawrence Beitler was sitting on the front porch of his home in Marion, Indiana, when someone asked him to tote his 8×10 view camera to the town square. It was past midnight on August 7, 1930, and Beitler, 44, was a professional photographer who mostly shot portraits of weddings, schoolchildren…Bf Collections31 min readBf Collections31 min read
