CAN I SPEAK FREELY?

President Donald Trump, who doubles as the self-proclaimed “least racist person anywhere in the world” and the self-proclaimed “best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln,” is inarguably anti-Black. He has refused to condemn white supremacy, pushed baseless, racist conspiracy theories about “white genocide” in South Africa (while never...

Nothing you will read in the following words, sentences, and paragraphs will be revolutionary. Nothing will be groundbreaking, trailblazing, or even yet to be heard. The content of this polemic will be merely the latest in a vast corpus of critiques of the federal government’s treatment of the city and...

In the world of sports, greatness has been known to attract hostility. The more talented an athlete is, the larger the target on their back. The potency of this phenomenon tends to grow the more anomalous an athlete’s success is, such as in cases of Black athletes excelling in historically...

The Cambridge Dictionary defines the adjective “post-truth” as “relating to a situation in which people are more likely to accept an argument based on their emotions and beliefs, rather than one based on facts.” Many commentators have suggested that “post-truth politics” rule the day in America, citing the growing impact...

There are few communities and cultures as distinctive as those of Black Washington, DC. It simply cannot be mistaken for any other enclave of Black experience. Nowhere else will you find so much pride being taken in go-go, half-smokes, and knowing which restaurant mixes the best mumbo sauce. Nowhere else...

In March of this year, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14253, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” The order, a successor to similar orders, positions itself as an attempt to reverse what it calls “a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history.” The “corrosive ideology”...