Opinion

Celebrities voices are powerful, but does the First Amendment allow them to say whatever they want?

Racism is a form of both visible and invisible violence.

Distance has made visiting mothers in prison more difficult, particularly around the holidays.

Readers likely doubt news that contains hashtags.

The week spent in Atlanta only served to crystallize where each candidate falls within the party and how those placements reflect attitudes about Black voters, especially among the frontrunners.

From the location to the audience to the moderator, Elizabeth Warren's event at North Carolina A&T was dripping in Blackness. Why couldn't she give a better answer to a hypothetical question about her hypothetical cabinet?

It’s absolutely frightening that the same duplicitous online tactics that helped elect Donald Trump are still working in 2019 surrounding the new "Harriet" movie.

As a society we cannot afford to perpetuate health inequities by undermining or disguising the biological impact of racism.

In 2019, it takes an inconceivable amount of audacity to produce a show like "Modern Love" about the complexities of relationships and make it so wholly white, privileged and exclusionary.

How do we tell Black boys and girls that they aren’t safe in their own homes and the people they aren’t safe from wear badges that protect themselves from prosecution? 

Atatiana Jefferson, a 28 year old who police killed in her own home, joins a growing list of Black people who have been executed in public by law enforcement as the troubling trend shows no signs of ending.

The problem with the way Amber Guyger’s sentence was laid out isn’t necessarily about her as much as it is about the ways everyone else - namely Black and brown folks - are treated within that same criminal justice system.