Featured Opinions June 9, 2021

‘The Underground Railroad’ has strong performances, but fails to deliver

How do you make slavery boring ? Despite strong performances, Barry Jenkin‘s The Underground Railroad is plodding and rudderless. The...

Featured Opinion Opinions May 25, 2021

Don’t let the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder be an excuse to ignore history

Last week, my editor asked me if I wanted to do an essay for the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s...

Entertainment Featured Film Opinion Opinions May 13, 2021

Regina King to direct ‘Bitter Root’ — Jump on the bandwagon before it gets full

There’s always something special about being down with something before it goes mainstream. Remember how you felt way back in...

Featured Opinion Opinions April 29, 2021

Decertify the Police: As states wrestle with police brutality, one solution was there all along

Let’s play a game we all learned as kids: One of these things is not like the other. Here are three...

Featured Media Opinion Opinions April 7, 2021

Remembering Legal Analyst Midwin Charles: A life well lived, cut too short

One of the more morbid parts of the journalism business is the process of writing obituaries. Oftentimes, for older celebrities...

Featured Opinions April 6, 2021

What’s an NFT? Erika Alexander is using it to urge Black creative control

In America, Black people are always getting robbed. First, we were stolen from various nations in Africa (yes, POWs traded...

Black Business Business Featured Opinion Opinions April 2, 2021

New York legalizes marijuana and Jay-Z prepares for the takeover

Drug legalization, like gay marriage, internet gambling and paying college athletes, is one of those issues that if not already legal...

Featured Opinion Opinions February 19, 2021

No President Biden, interracial couples on TV doesn’t make America any less racist

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden held a town hall on CNN where he shared many of this thoughts about how to rescue...

Featured Opinion Opinions Sports February 5, 2021

Brett Favre needs to stop counting NFL star DeShaun Watson’s coins

You don’t have to know a lot about NFL quarterback DeShaun Watson, or the Houston Texans — or even the...

Featured News Opinion Opinions January 15, 2021

Capitol officer Eugene Goodman must not fade into history — it’s happened before

Once upon a time, there was a Black security guard who saved American Democracy. His quick thinking and eye for...

Featured Opinion Opinions Politics January 11, 2021

‘That white boy didn’t lose’: Ossoff’s revenge with a little help from Warnock

“I’ve got the title for your next article!” That was the first text I saw after my flight landed in...

Entertainment Featured Opinion Opinions January 4, 2021

‘Wonder Woman’ was DC’s best stab at a superhero film, and still managed to screw it up

The box office for Wonder Woman 1984 dropped a massive 67% from the first to the second weekend, which means...

Featured Opinion Opinions Sports January 1, 2021

Booger McFarland and the rise of the anti-Black scold in sports

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A professional athlete with a zillion-dollar contract who’s barely old enough to rent a...

Featured Opinion Opinions Politics November 2, 2020

The most important swing voter of 2020 is not who you think it is

In our highly-focused, micro-targeted, ultra-specific campaign environment of 2020, everyone is looking for that critical swing voter. Those mysterious voters...

Featured News Opinion Opinions October 21, 2020

To everybody tweeting #BlameBlackMen, I see the Ice Cube in ‘Yoo’

I care about Ice Cube’s opinions on the state of Black America in the same way I care about Kyrie...

Featured Opinion Opinions Politics October 20, 2020

Yes, Joe Biden can still lose the presidential election

A few nights ago I got the following call from a friend and it went a little something like this: ...

Featured Opinion Opinions Politics October 2, 2020

Making political sense of Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis

Donald Trump has coronavirus. Also known as COVID-19, the package, Dat ‘Rona, whatever professional, personal or cultural slang you want...

Featured Opinion Opinions Sports September 28, 2020

The NBA has found its ‘Great White Hope’ — but it’s 6 months too late

During an ESPN interview in 2004, interviewer Jim Gray asked Larry Bird, arguably the best White player in NBA history,...

News Opinion Politics September 19, 2020

Ruth Bader Ginsberg has died: 3 reasons Democrats shouldn’t panic … yet

Friday night, Supreme Court Justice, legal, feminist, and pop culture icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to join the ancestors at...

Featured Opinions Politics August 28, 2020

RNC is our last reminder that Republicans don’t plan on a fair play election

I don’t care if you’re playing backyard football, having a dinner party or dropping off the kids at your Mom’s...