Day 2: Budweiser Made In America Caps Off The Summer [Photos]
Day two of the 2014 Budweiser Made In America Festival in Philadelphia became a common case of déjà vu. A week prior, yours truly was caught up in the rapture of an epic downpour that dampened the Trillectro Music Festival in Washington D.C. And the ...
Black America’s tragic challenge: How do you explain racism to your son?
This piece originally appeared on DAME. The murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, immediately took me back to a little more than a year ago, when I received a text from my then-16-year-old son. The text contained only two words, but I’ll never ...
Negrophobia: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and America’s Fear of Black People
Originally posted on TIME: Phobias are lethal. This summer’s series of prominent killings of unarmed Black men, Michael Brown being the most covered, have forced me to come to terms with my own fear: I am an arachnophobe. A few nights ago, I noticed a dark spot in my periphery. Suddenly it twitched. ...
