This Five For Friday is light-hearted and breezy, like the weekend we so deserve after this week. Let’s go! Three quick tips for the fellas: 1) Get Out My Face Paint. Fellas, if you see a woman putting on makeup, say on the train or the bus (hey, not the classiest move ever, but time [...]

I have a new piece up today at Essence.com about the death of Chicago Police officer and Iraq War veteran Thomas Wortham and what the lack of media coverage seems to say about our reaction to Black death at Black hands: It seems that a story like this — marked with extraordinary violence, the cruel [...]