The Black athlete, like the Black musician, politician, and the other varieties of stardom, has historically been victim to glaring double standards in their field. Serena Williams, for example, is criticized more...
Author - Myles Walker
Myles Walker
#CancelJemele
If your social media feeds are anything like mine, you can’t get very far in them without catching wind of the latest celebrity being “cancelled” or seeing someone propose who the next one to cancel should be. Twitter...
A Note on the Protests
The call for resistance in the United States has been heard and answered. Five days after writing an article about the disproportionate death of Black Americans historically and presently, I witnessed the now-infamous...
A Tale of Two Bens
If there is anyone thing that everyone in our increasingly divided world can agree on, it is that 2020 has been a bizarre year thus far. It has seen the ramping up and full force of the coronavirus pandemic, a new...
Death and the American Response
“It would be fatal,” said Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his most famous speech, “for the nation to overlook the urgency of this moment.” Dr. King, of course, was referring to the strides being...
Double Crisis in the District
In 2015, Mayor Bowser and the D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) began working on the “Homeward DC” initiative, and its goal of ending long-term homelessness by making it a “rare, brief...
Hancock as Racial Allegory
I first saw Hancock when it was released in theaters twelve years ago, and my mother led me back outside before it ended because of how much Will Smith was cursing. I remember her surprise at hearing such language in a...
Lynching Legislation: Too Little, Too Late
Featured photo – Crowd of people gathered to watch the lynching of Jesse Washington, Waco, Texas, May 15, 1916. Immediately after his quick confession based conviction, Washington was castrated and then slowly...
Biden and the Black Vote
A recent Washington Post-Ipsos poll confirms what many of us already know: Black voters prefer Joe Biden. The factor most responsible for this, of course, is his attachment to Barack Obama’s presidency and cultural icon...
Slacktivism in the Season of Protest
The often-confused sect of activists on Instagram, along with other fair-weather friends of social justice, have recently gotten ahold of yet another provocative storyline. The story and the response it elicited are...
Blue Lives in Black Space
There is palpable friction between Black Americans and the police today. Much of the Black community has grown increasingly distrustful of the police, as another decade draws to a close in America without having...
Blue Barrels, Black Targets
The Metropolitan Police Department’s penchant for violence against the black community is no secret. Decades of documentation exist for their record of brutality issued disproportionately to black and brown residents...
Trending Violence an Unwelcome Link between The District and Baltimore
Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Two hours ago at 12:20 a.m., a shooting involving three people occurred outside of Cook Hall at Howard University, my place of education. Any Howard student could tell you of the frequent and...
