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Concealed Carry as a Black Woman: How Safe Are You?
Envision someone with concealed weapons permit and you’ll probably imagine a gun-totin’ redneck. But while white males do comprise the overwhelming majority of permits, Black Americans are increasingly applying to …
Thank You for Your Unreasonable Demands
“Did you look at the demands? The demands, the things that they’re asking for, many of those things are like, crazy.”—Donald Trump on the University of Missouri Protests “For as …
The Tyranny of the P.C. Police
A few months ago, Wesley Morris, deemed 2015 “The Year We Obsessed Over Identity”. Morris, one of the foremost Black culture critics writing today, argued that last year our culture …
What We Bring to Light: A Conversation with John Legend
John Legend has ten Grammy awards. This may be the least interesting thing about him. After all, plenty of remarkably talented musicians also choose silence— especially in times like this …
The Digital Souls of Black Folk
My best friend is white and last year, we lived together. It happened fast— my relationship with my mom had been toxic for a while and one day, in the …
Your Own Black Self: A Conversation with Netta
Like so many of us, I first encountered Johnetta (Netta) Elzie via her Twitter account in August of 2014. The unrest in Ferguson following the death of Michael Brown was …
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Get in Formation
If there is a Church of Beyoncé, then I am a late convert, a Christmas-Easter heathen who found an altar call a night after a club visit that ran too …
Scholarship Girl, Interrupted
Here is a snapshot of my past 24 hours: It is now 9:11 pm and I’ve just finished dinner. I got home at 8 from a half-hour commute after a …
Who’s Responsible for Mass Incarceration?
Two major articles by criminal justice experts last week roundly criticized Hillary Clinton for her support of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. Both pieces are …