This just in: It is now hip to be antiracist. Months of international civil rights protests and several high-profile cases of police brutality and racial violence have left hordes of non-Black Americans scrambling to...
Author - Myles Walker
Myles Walker
Fake News: The Butler Tapes
The content of this article is satirical and represents a work of fiction. The names of the characters within are fictious. Category 5 Hurricane Jeffrey, which made landfall yesterday, is already shaping up to be among...
In the Lies of the Law
In the United States, as in many other countries, it is a customary practice for elected officials and other authority figures to lie. Two very relevant peddlers of lies in the country are politicians at all levels and...
Fake News: Tyler Singleton
The following article is satirical, and its contents are a work of fiction. Tyler Singleton, the New Haven, Connecticut 13-year-old that murdered 77 African American mall patrons and injured none at the Burkman...
Conner O’Malley, Andrew Callaghan, and the Surreal
It can be difficult to process or even believe many of the things happening in the world today, and particularly the things happening in the United States. Odds are that you have some idea of what I mean if you watched...
Why The Right Is White, and Vice Versa
Following the President’s defense of Confederate flags and military bases named for Confederate generals, his open criticism of organizations supporting the banning of the flag, and his latest jingoistic venture, claims...
The Matador and His Cape
In our country, the man in power has comically made bulls of so many of us. Years of his deception and iniquity have left a major section of the American population on edge, constantly and fretfully waiting for the next...
Grosso Announcement Opens At-Large Floodgates
At-Large Councilmember David Grosso announced earlier this year that he would not be running for reelection to the Council. This opened the floodgates for prospective candidates vying for his seat, whose numbers now...
On the Leech – Jessica A. Krug
Fearing that her dishonesty would soon come to light, a white history professor at George Washington University, Jessica A. Krug, recently revealed that she had pretended to be Black for nearly all of her adult life...
Council Votes to Defund MPD
In the wake of gun violence and police brutality being as obvious and perhaps more openly contested than any other time in recent memory, the DC Council has been hard at work in their efforts to reduce the volume of...
The Spook Who Sat by the Door and the Art of Propaganda
The legendary sociologist, author, historian and more, W.E.B. Du Bois said in his 1926 “Criteria of Negro Art” speech that he did not “care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda. But I do...
Breonna and the Bird
On December 20, 2019 in Lawrence County, Indiana, a bald eagle was shot out of the sky. An investigation was launched almost immediately and a $500 reward was offered to anyone with information on the culprit. The event...
To Live and Die in D.C.
No matter how many statues of Christopher Columbus are felled, beheaded, or legally removed, his murderous legacy lives on in the city named for him. The terrifying volume of murders and other violent crimes in the...
To Make A Poet Black
“…Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing!” Countee Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel” The final two lines of my favorite poem, “Yet Do I Marvel” by Countee Cullen...
