On my best days, I walk with my head held high—over or beyond the mystifying childishness that makes a white man wonder if I belong in the airport lounge sitting …
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How President Obama helped me embrace my Americanness
I have never felt classically “American.” As a child of Eritrean and Ethiopian immigrants, born in Arlington, Virginia, I grew up in a relatively diverse area just outside of D.C. …
When the Cameras Have Gone, Our Babies Are Dead
They could be any women you might pass in the grocery store, or at the post office; they could be your coworkers or someone you recall seeing around the neighborhood. …
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 …
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 …
Reclaiming King: Five Speeches (That Aren’t the Dream Speech)
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