This week’s essay is posted on The Thought Erotic for its inauguration issue, “We the People Won’t Be…
I’m among the million or so people who have seen NFL player Benjamin Watson’s Facebook post about Ferguson, but in…
Blogger’s note: This post was originally published in the Courier-Journal on Sept. 28, 2014 and edited by Pam Platt. For the…
Every once in a while, you hear something so offensive that it smacks you like a heat index of 102…
I’ve been trying to compose something about the election for the past two weeks, but I haven’t had much to…
I’ve been reading At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance—A New History of the Civil…
In his column, “America’s obsession with missing white women,â€Â Miami Herald writer Leonard Pitts asserts that the incessant news coverage of…