Writing
2021
“We Can Do to the Senate What Brits Did to the House of Lords” The Daily Beast. March 20, 2021
2020
“Obama Lays It on the Line While Trump SCREAMS ON TWITTER” The Daily Beast. August 20, 2020
“Existence and inequality: America needs an existential awakening” The Institute of Art and Ideas. July 24, 2020
“Obituary: John Lewis, US civil rights champion” BBC. July 18, 2020
“It’s Time for All of America To Celebrate Juneteenth” The Daily Beast. June 19, 2020
“Finding Freecano: Cultivating a Language of Liberation” Grits & Gospel. June 4, 2020
“How Ethnocide Explains COVID-19” The Washington Informer: The Bridge. June 4, 2020
“Viewpoint: America Must Confront Its Original Sin to Move Forward” BBC. June 3, 2020
“‘I Can’t Breathe’ is the New American Anthem. Here’s How We Change That” The Daily Beast. May 28, 2020
“Ahmaud Arbery’s Killing Exposes the Banality of American Evil” The Daily Beast. May 10, 2020
“Black People Know: The Coronavirus Is No Great Equalizer” The Daily Beast. April 8, 2020
“Why Biden-Obama Is the Ultimate White Guy-Black Guy Buddy Movie” The Daily Beast. March 15, 2020
“How Different Would Things Be If South Carolina Had Voted First? Like, Um, Black and White” The Daily Beast. March 3, 2020
2019
“Viewpoint: How a hug sparked debate on race and forgiveness” BBC. October 4, 2019
“Terrorist Gun Violence in Public Spaces Is an Old Story for African Americans” The Daily Beast. August 12, 2019
“It’s Juneteenth, and a White Nationalist Is President” The Daily Beast. June 19, 2019
“Viewpoint: What series on Central Park Five teaches us today” BBC. June 12, 2019
“How Georgia Will Use ‘Moral Turpitude’ to Strip Black People of Their Votes in 2020” The Daily Beast. May 31, 2019
“Mueller’s Last Word: Nixon Won” The Daily Beast. May 30, 2019
“On the Harriet Tubman $20, Donald Trump Puts His (Racist) Money Where His (Racist) Mouth Is” The Daily Beast. May 24, 2019
“Don’t Just Pay Off Student Debt. Make It Extinct.” The Daily Beast. May 21, 2019
“The Alabamification of America, From Jim Crow to Jane Doe” The Daily Beast. May 16, 2019
“Viewpoint: Beyonce’s Homecoming celebrates black culture and education” BBC. April 18, 2019
“Behind the legacy of America's blackface” BBC. February 5, 2019
“A White Supremacist Hounded a Black Lawmaker Out of Office” The Daily Beast. January 26, 2019
2018
“Will Enough White People Vote for Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum?” The Daily Beast. November 2, 2018
“Megyn Kelly was meant to bridge the partisan divide. She failed” The Guardian. October 27, 2018
“Part 2: Discovering & Countering Ethnocide” Medium. October 15, 2018
“Part 1. An African American Day of the Dead? How it became personal for me.” Medium. October 3, 2018
“The Best Way to Fight Voter-ID Laws? Give Voters IDs!” The Daily Beast. August 28, 2018
“Millions of Felons Are Getting Their Votes Back. Now They're Learning To Cast Them.” The Daily Beast. August 11, 2018
“Non-Citizen and Wish You Could Vote Against Trump? With the Love Vote, You Almost Can” The Daily Beast. July 21, 2018
“We’ve Had Family Separation Before—It Was Called Slavery and Jim Crow” The Daily Beast. June 29, 2018
“Viewpoint: The Royal wedding was a landmark for African Americans” BBC. May 20, 2018
“Viewpoint: Why racism in US is worse than in Europe” BBC. May 17, 2018
“Viewpoint: Racial incidents are 'part of America'" BBC. May 17, 2018
“Megachurches Are Turning Into MAGA-Churches” The Daily Beast. April 4, 2018
“Hooray for Nashville: A Southern City Finally Gets the Civil War Right” The Daily Beast. March 28, 2018
“South Carolina Candidate ‘Proud’ of Confederacy and Slave-Owning Ancestor” The Daily Beast. March 12, 2018
“In Punishing Delta, Georgia GOP Chooses Guns and White Privilege Over Progress” The Daily Beast. March 2, 2018
“Unions Helped Integrate America. The Supreme Court Could End That This Year.” The Daily Beast. February 10, 2018
“Jay-Z Is Right on Trump Racism—It’s About Respect, Not Money” The Daily Beast. January 29, 2018
“The Truth About the Contributions of Americans from ‘Sh*thole’ Countries” The Daily Beast. January 12, 2018
“Baltimore’s Freezing Classrooms Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg” The Daily Beast. January 12, 2018
“Republicans Propose Statue to Black Confederate Soldiers. Yes, Really.” The Daily Beast. January 4, 2018
2017
“Doug Jones and Ralph Northam Need to Remember Who Elected Them” The Daily Beast. December 31, 2017
“In Trump’s America, Even White People Can Face Poll Taxes, if They Lean Liberal” The Daily Beast. December 11, 2017
“Oh, So Now Steve Harvey Is Sorry for Cozying Up to Trump?” The Daily Beast. November 6, 2017
“The Acronym in Kaepernick’s Future Isn’t NFL—It Should Be BLM” The Daily Beast. October 26, 2017
“Quo ESPN Punishes Jemele Hill for Challenging the White Status Quo” The Daily Beast. October 10, 2017
“How to Lead a Revolution While Raising 11(!) Children” The Daily Beast. August 24, 2017
“Steve Mnuchin Makes the $20 Bill the Latest Racial Battleground” The Daily Beast. August 12, 2017
“He Got a Soccer Scholarship—and Then He Got Deported” The Daily Beast. August 12, 2017
“Underneath the Vick-Kaepernick Dust-Up: Black Respectability Politics” The Daily Beast. July 19, 2017
“Donald Trump and the Second Southern ‘Redemption’” The Daily Beast. July 14, 2017
“The Jim Crow Law Stopping African Americans From Voting in 2017” The Daily Beast. July 10, 2017
“Kamala Harris’ Playlist: Yes, It’s Political, But It’s Smart” The Daily Beast. June 24, 2017
“Jeff Sessions and the Conflict Between Southern ‘Honor’ and the Law” The Daily Beast. June 17, 2017
“The Left’s Latest (and Racially Misguided) Swing at Hillary Clinton” The Daily Beast. June 8, 2017
“In White Supremacist Murder, Portland’s Mayor Has God on His Side—but not the Law” The Daily Beast. June 1, 2017
“The Real—and Really Creepy—Lesson of That ‘Atlantic’ Slave Story” The Daily Beast. May 25, 2017
“Why Did Bethune-Cookman Invite Betsy DeVos in the First Place?” The Daily Beast. May 11, 2017
“Alabama Judge Says Segregation Good for Black Kids” The Daily Beast. May 6, 2017
“New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu Isn’t Stuck in 1865” The Daily Beast. April 28, 2017
“In New Orleans, Monument to White Terrorism Finally Falls” The Daily Beast. April 26, 2017
“Here Comes One More Great Trump ‘Civil Rights’ Nominee” The Daily Beast. April 22, 2017
“Is Arthur Blank the Only Good Owner in the NFL?” The Daily Beast. April 14, 2017
“Sessions’s Order Is Being Fought in California, New Jersey… and Alabama!” The Daily Beast. April 6, 2017
“Goal of Kentucky Republicans: School Re-Segregation” The Daily Beast. March 16, 2017
“C’mon, President Obama—Time to Start Returning Fire” The Daily Beast. March 11, 2017
“Betsy DeVos Whitewashes the History of Black Colleges” The Daily Beast. February 28, 2017
“In Trump’s America, Jeff Sessions Is a ‘Civil Rights Champion’ and Truth Is Dying” The Daily Beast. January 26, 2017
“The Seven Tough Questions the Democrats Must Ask Jeff Sessions” The Daily Beast. January 6, 2017
2016
“Black America Steels Itself for Obama’s Departure and a Future Under Trump” The Daily Beast. December 31, 2016
“Cornell Belcher: The Real Racial Crisis Is Aversion” The Daily Beast. December 6, 2016
“2016, Meet 1877: Trump’s Ascendance Is Creepily Like the End of Reconstruction” The Daily Beast. November 16, 2016
“I’m Young, Black, and Male. I Live in Fear of a Trump Presidency.” The Daily Beast. November 7, 2016
“Early voting lines are so long, people are fainting. That harms democracy” The Guardian. October 19, 2016
“Voter-ID Laws, From Sea to Racist Sea” The Daily Beast. October 12, 2016
“Black Millennials: Don’t Help Donald Trump” The Daily Beast. September 10, 2016
“My Home State of Georgia, Once Conservative-But-Sane, May Be Coming Back to Earth” The Daily Beast. September 4, 2016
“Trump is trying to woo black voters. We're not buying it” The Guardian. August 25, 2016
“Bernie Sanders’s Plan for Perpetual Revolution” The Daily Beast. August 12, 2016
“Yes, Donald Trump. The electoral system is 'rigged' – against black Americans” The Guardian. August 3, 2016
“The Bernie Sanders Left Has Problems With Tim Kaine? Oh, Grow Up, People!” The Daily Beast. August 1, 2016
“Black Mothers Matter: Moms of Victims of Police Shootings Take Center Stage at DNC” The Daily Beast. July 26, 2016
“Who Are the Five Black Men Willing to Speak for Trump in Cleveland?” The Daily Beast. July 19, 2016
“Another deadly day in Baton Rouge. Will we heed the warning?” The Guardian. July 17, 2016
“A black and Latino coalition is emerging – and that is a boon for Democrats” The Guardian. July 14, 2016
“John Lewis and House Dems Must Keep Up the Anti-NRA Fight” The Daily Beast. July 11, 2016
“Dallas doesn't represent 'civil war', but a society that needs fundamental change” The Guardian. July 8, 2016
“Guess Why the GOP Hates Our Black Attorney General?” The Daily Beast. June 27, 2016
“Has Bernie Sanders changed American politics? Reviewing a 'political revolution'" The Guardian. June 17, 2016
“Donald Trump’s Racism Repels Black Republicans” The Daily Beast. June 16, 2016
“The White Entitlement of Some Sanders Supporters” The Daily Beast. June 5, 2016
“Hillary Clinton’s Surefire Bet for Increasing Black Turnout: A Constitutional Right to Vote” The Daily Beast. May 16, 2016
“How BLM Has Been—and in November Will Be—Clinton’s Secret Turnout Ally” The Daily Beast. April 22, 2016
“Susan Sarandon and the Berniacs Who Wanna Watch the World Burn” The Daily Beast. March 29, 2016
“How to Accept Hillary Clinton as a Bernie Sanders Fan” The Daily Beast. March 25, 2016
“Black Lives Matter Is a Movement, But It’s Not a Player” The Daily Beast. March 11, 2016
“Why Black Celeb Endorsements Matter Most” The Daily Beast. March 3, 2016
“Can the Obama Coalition Outlast Obama?” The Daily Beast. January 18, 2016
“President Obama Isn’t Taking People’s Guns—But Maybe He Should” The Daily Beast. January 7, 2016
2015
“Hillary Clinton’s Tone-Deaf Racial Pandering” The Daily Beast. December 29, 2015
“The State Where Racism Is Enshrined in the Constitution” The Daily Beast. December 22, 2015
“Donald Trump’s Economic Appeal to Poor Whites” The Daily Beast. December 10, 2015
“Donald Trump Is Our Jean-Marie Le Pen” The Daily Beast. November 27, 2015
“Why Won’t People Just Call Ben Carson the Idiot He Clearly Is?” The Daily Beast. November 17, 2015
“Will Trump Blow Up The GOP On SNL?” The Daily Beast. November 7, 2015
“African Americans Can’t Go ‘Home’” The Daily Beast. October 21, 2015
“Donald Trump Has Black Supporters (Really)” The Daily Beast. September 21, 2015
“Racism Vs. Whites? You’re Kidding Me” The Daily Beast. September 8, 2015
“Black Lives Matter’s Big Mistake” The Daily Beast. September 2, 2015
“OK, This Trump Thing Isn’t Funny Anymore” The Daily Beast. August 27, 2015
“How Black Lives Matter Can Really Matter” The Daily Beast. August 12, 2015
“It’s Pretty Obvious: To GOP, #BlackLivesDon’tMatter” The Daily Beast. August 8, 2015
“‘Heritage Not Hate’? Sorry, White South, They Go Together” The Daily Beast. August 5, 2015
“Can Bernie Sanders Be Less White?” The Daily Beast. July 22, 2015
“White People Should Read Black Twitter” The Daily Beast. July 18, 2015
“Obama, HUD Take on Racism in Housing” The Daily Beast. July 11, 2015
“Coming Next to the South Carolina Statehouse Grounds: The Klan” The Daily Beast. July 6, 2015
“Charleston Lesson: Black Americans Live With Terrorism All the Time” The Daily Beast. June 19, 2015
“If Rachel Dolezal Says She’s Black, She’s Black. Sort Of.” The Daily Beast. June 16, 2015
“The Real Felony: Denying Prisoners the Right to Vote” The Daily Beast. June 12, 2015
“Can We Please Get God Out of Religion?” The Daily Beast. May 24, 2015
“Running for President for Fun and Profit” The Daily Beast. May 9, 2015
“No, the Young People of Baltimore Are Not ‘Thugs’” The Daily Beast. May 1, 2015
“The Sad But Self-Inflicted Fall of Cornel West” The Daily Beast. April 22, 2015
“How John Roberts Made Hillary Clinton President” The Daily Beast. April 16, 2015
“Late Night Is About to Get Real on Race” The Daily Beast. April 9, 2015
“Dangerous Speech is Not Free Speech or Even Hate Speech” HuffPost. March 18, 2015
2014
“The Discussion on Capitalizing the ‘B’ in ‘Black’ Continues” HuffPost. November 24, 2014
2011
“Liberia: One Step Forward” Institute for War & Peace Reporting. November 24, 2011
“Uganda: Future of War Crimes Trials in Question” Institute for War & Peace Reporting. October 14, 2011
“Defence Challenge Case Against Mbarushimana” Institute for War & Peace Reporting. September 28, 2011
“Alleged Libyan Rebel Abuses Revealed” Institute for War & Peace Reporting. September 13, 2011
“Tunisia's Crowded Media Scene” Institute for War & Peace Reporting. September 2, 2011
“War on LRA Rebels Loses Momentum” Institute for War & Peace Reporting. August 17, 2011
“Avoiding One-Party Rule in South Sudan” Institute for War & Peace Reporting. July 25, 2011
“Questions Raised Over Landmark Ugandan Trial” Institute for War & Peace Reporting. July 11, 2011