What words have been grafted to soothe a mother’s pain when her black child is murdered. Who created a hug strong enough to convince a young...
Forty-nine. That’s the latest number of people killed by a gunman who rampaged through an Orlando gay nightclub in the early morning hours Sunday. This latest...
In Chicago today and around the nation, voices will unite against gun violence. It is National Gun Violence Awareness Day recognized by wearing orange. The annual...
With air dressed in thick traditions, chocolatey love, and new cucumber water…for the first time in my life, I understood the inherent importance of Memorial Day....
A group of former slaves compelled to honor Union soldiers found buried in a mass grave is credited with starting the first Memorial Day. Historian Brian...
On that day, with the smallest of hopes, I turned thirty-six years old and celebrated with used plastic cups and tainted black neglect. For television screens...
The mother of Trayvon Martin is speaking about the auction of the gun used to kill her son. Sybrina Fulton talked about the sale during an...
One week after several gun shops declined to auction the gun George Zimmerman used to kill 17 year-old Trayvon Martin, the gun has reportedly been sold...
The hit TV series, Empire, is doing it again: discussing a issue that is fraught with fear and shame. The Lyons’ oldest son, Andre, is bipolar....
President Barack Obama showed off his comedic skills at the White House Correspondents Dinner. In the final months of his terms in office, the President jokingly...