If Amanda Gorman is not the most famous poet in the United States right now, she is at least the most widely celebrated. The signs of this are virtually everywhere you look. Having been the first-ever National Youth...
Author - Myles Walker
Myles Walker
How a White Nationalist Sold White Nationalism as Nationalism
Donald Trump’s four years as president taught us many things. Very few of these things are fun to remember. We learned that a sitting president can hit the links during a national and global health crisis without...
Judas and the Black Biographical Film
Though Black biographical films are by no means a novelty, their number has grown considerably alongside the twenty-first century’s explosion of platforms for and interest in Black media. For many years now, they have...
Ghetto White Kids and Hot Cheeto Girls
The culture of African Americans is unlike any other. All at once, it has survived centuries of violent adversity, it is renowned for how powerfully it can channel both joy and sorrow, it has become so accustomed to...
The Sooner the Better: Celebrity Offenses in the Digital Age
HBO’s new four-part miniseries Allen v. Farrow has been on thousands of minds since the first episode’s release last Sunday. The series, which features appearances from actress Mia Farrow and all but two of her...
Trump: The Last Trump?
Say what you will about the historically calamitous presidency of Donald Trump, but we all must admit that he was able to accomplish something that none of his forty-four predecessors could: he proved, beyond a shadow...
Anti-Asian Sentiment and the Soul of America
When President Biden and Vice President Harris were still campaigning for the offices they now hold, they often referred to the 2020 election as a “battle for the soul of the nation.” Their view, I suppose, was that the...
Fake News: Young Stretch
The content of this article is satirical and represents a work of fiction. The names of the characters within are fictitious. Early Friday morning, rapper Young Stretch, 20, whose real name was Anthony Parks, was shot...
New Blacks With New Stacks
If you have read a few of my articles for The DC Voice, you likely know how profound it is to me that Black people have survived and succeeded in quite literally every situation that promised to crush them. I consider...
To Glenn
Glenn’s article can be read here. Imagine having the entire world shaped to your singular and specific benefit so comprehensively that there was never a time or place in the last millennium in which you would have been...
Biden’s Executive Orders: Not Executive Enough?
It does not take much to see the surface-level differences between the administration of Donald Trump and the still-young administration of President Joe Biden. The Tweeting, fearmongering, propagandizing, and...
Rioting for Its Own Sake
Like begets like, and the progenitor of the recent violence at the United States Capitol building, though some may hesitate to admit it, was the ongoing fervor and volume of the country’s antiracist demonstrations. It...
A Treatise on Pessimism
When discussing race relations with peers and acquaintances, I sometimes raise the question of whether there is hope for anything resembling a “post-racial” future in the United States or, more appropriately, if racism...
What Obama Gets Wrong About “Defund the Police”
In a recent interview that you could originally only watch on Snapchat, of all places, Former President Barack Obama doubled down on earlier comments he made that expressed his disdain for the phrase “defund the police...
