I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two knuckleheads I have ….

Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice ….

I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works. Street art is mysterious and ….

Your average white liberal might agree with social justice in principle, and yet live quite comfortably as a "winner" in a nation whose social instit….

Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're p….

I look at my kids, who were born under a Black president, who hop around the living room naked and joyful, mimicking Simone Biles, and just think, Da….

I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it….

Here is a pragmatic and idealistic suggestion, White America! When you see my kids on the playground, on the street, can you remember to smile at the….

I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international strugg….

I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance..

It matters when public officials admit that their hearts have changed, but only in the service of changing actual policy..