Zack Linly
About Zack Linly
Zack Linly is a writer, journalist, poet and artist. Formerly a freelance writer for The Root, The Washington Post, HuffPost and other publications, he joined the iOne team in 2021 as a staff writer for NewsOne, Bossip, Hip Hop Wired, Cassius Life and MadameNoire, where he covers topics including politics, social justice and Black culture.
OPINION: I, for one, am shocked that a flight attendant found an ICE agent’s gun unattended in a public restroom at San Francisco International Airport last month.
ICE agent Christian Castro was released at the break of dawn Thursday morning from a detention center in Brownsville.
OPINION: The U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic thinks a portrait by Black artist Kehinde Wiley is "woke," apparently because it — *check notes* — features Dominicans.
OPINION: There are two men running for a U.S. Senate seat in Alaska, and they are both named Dan Sullivan, which is at once hilarious and confusing.
OPINION: Trump's DOJ is threatening to break all the toys the president stole because a judge won't let him write his name all over them.
Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed are still embroiled in a multi-state legal battle with McKenna West, the surrogate they paid to have their baby.
OPINION: Like many of Trump's blathering fan boys, Jesse Watters could not answer direct questions from El-Sayed because he was too busy regurgitating MAGA talking points.
OPINION: Is there any job you would apply for if you knew going in that there was a 25% chance that you would suffer some kind of traumatic brain injury?
OPINION: No matter how racist a racist is, they'll still deny that race plays a part in any situation when they just don't want to hear about it.
OPINION: Situations like this seem to be the norm, especially when it comes to areas occupied largely by Black people and people of color.
Phoenix Police Chief Matt Giordano announced Saturday that now-former Phoenix police officers Antonio Felix and Luis Vasquez were arrested on charges including aggravated assault and kidnapping.
OPINION: The Trump administration is a bigoted, xenophobic institution that will use its power to enforce a white nationalist agenda in the U.S.