Nightmare on Grace Avenue

A story of power, the pursuit of power, real estate, a movie producer, a movie and a Hollywood dream gone sideways

Exploring ‘mulatto’ and the mixed-race disconnect

Unpacking the tragic power of an outdated word, four…

Blackface history month

It’s a virus that’s neither latent nor active, something we as a nation can’t…

The United States of Amygdala?

What’s an almond-shaped structure in the brain’s temporal lobe have to…

For Ice Cube … one respectful rejoinder: The n-word belongs to America

Language is interactive. Black Americans can no more take sole possession of the word than America can collectively evade its role in…

Black like she: Rachel Dolezal and what all this says about us

She told a story. We tell ourselves stories every day.

An open letter to the Electors

Either majority rule and the constitutional principle of one person-one vote are bedrock or they are not. It’s time to call the question

Justine and Heather

They died in ways that African Americans recognize. They weren’t African American. Those facts complicate the old certainties about who marches and who stays home, who kills and who…

Sausage making according to Joe Biden

Recent comments weren’t nostalgia for the good old days of…

Once upon a time in another world

On life, death, distance, and normality B.C. and A.C.