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writer and Navy veteran
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Opinion
Making White Characters Black Isn’t Progress—It’s Pandering. And It Insults Black Fans Like Me | Opinion
Too many people are using these race-swapped characters as if the changes will break some kind of ground, as if Hollywood freed the slaves with its benevolence.
4 min read
Opinion
What About All the Other R. Kellys? I Knew Many Growing Up | Opinion
R. Kelly had friends. Some of them still at work in the industry. What happens next? We need help, America. What will you do about it?
5 min read
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37,000 U.S. Veterans Are Homeless. I Was One of Them | Opinion
Veterans are yelled at by VA receptionists, rushed through appointments with doctors and, when we find ourselves houseless, the medications keeping us alive disappear into the mail system or sit unclaimed in pharmacies.
8 min read
My Turn
‘I’m Black, I Became Friends With a White Supremacist’
“When did you start hating Black people?” I asked Daniel. “It’s how I was raised,” he said nonchalantly. “But I just hate how they act. What they look like. I hate that they breathe.”
7 min read
Opinion
Has Black Lives Matter Made Good on its Promise to Us? | Opinion
Are you satisfied with where this money meant for us is going? Let’s hold the organization accountable, because if not us, eventually the federal government will.
5 min read
Opinion
Evanston’s Reparations Plan Is an Insult to Public Housing Kids Like Me | Opinion
Giving Evanston reparations was the consolation prize America thinks the Black community wants in response to the civil unrest of the past few years. But it completely misses the point of the change we’ve been asking for.
5 min read
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