Opinion & Essay

The exhibition at the African American Museum in Philadelphia continues through April 29.

We're so jaded at this point that even the most horrific news stories barely tilt the shock-meter.

It’s the young people who are creating the movements.

A lot of black people are in a space where we have the spirit, the soul, and all that it takes to override oppression, but it means nothing if we don’t believe it.

Black people have always had to project themselves into the future because of the reality of their present. Even today, it takes some cognitive dissonance not to be enraged.

I am an educator because I choose to invest in the future of blackness.

I sometimes wish I could stop talking about race, just for a day. It gets exhausting. I shouldn’t have to defend my race on a daily basis.

One reason why 61 percent of Americans dislike Trump, and why 57 percent say he's unfit to serve as president, is because so much of what he says is laughingly contemptible.

It’s the responsibility of people like me to keep looking for people like him to make those chance encounters more than just shouting matches on the street.

Can a human being change? Can a culture? It's not too late to begin.

Put your hands together for Mona Charen, who was mad as hell and wasn’t gonna take it anymore. Charen, whose right-wing cred ...

In a new play about middle-schoolers, a hate crime changes everything.

Civil disobedience is our obligation, not our right. If we do not stand up, ignorance wins. As long as we feel inequality, we cannot say that we live in a post-racial society.

Trump is still abuzz about arming teachers. For the second straight day, he played the monkey to the NRA organ grinder. Let's rebut his blather with the help of a soldier.