NABJLA’s fourth annual “Black Men in Media” conversation featuring KTLA Executive Producer Marcus Smith, LA Times staff writer Donovan X. Ramsey, and Spectrum News 1 anchor Kelvin Washington. Freelance journalist and NABJLA President Jarrett Hill moderated the discussion on the experience of Black men in media.
Read MoreRed Drinks for Juneteenth: Exploring the Black Foodways of the Juneteenth Holiday and Beyond, a virtual discussion featuring Kevin Bludso (Bludso's Bar & Que), John Cleveland (Post & Beam), Kim Prince (Hotville Chicken), and Ray Anthony Barrett (Cinqué); hosted by L.A. Times Staff Writer Donovan X. Ramsey, who covers Black life in Los Angeles.
Read MoreI joined Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham, and Antonio M. Johnson for a conversation moderated by Theo Tyson in celebration of the multidisciplinary wonder, Black Futures. This event was sponsored by Charis Books, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, and For Keeps Books.
Read MoreI appeared on a panel at Columbia Journalism School Friday alongside Maria Hinojosa, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and William Jelani Cobb. The topic was "Covering Race and Equality in the Trump Era." Check it out.
Read MoreHillary Clinton is pulling out all the stops to increase her lead with millennial voters. I joined Joy-Ann Reid alongside Brittany Packnett of Campaign Zero, Zerlina Maxwell from the Hillary for America campaign, Jesse Saunders from Democrats of Hofstra University and Nathaniel Aron of Hofstra College Republicans to discuss.
Read MorePolling suggests the problem isn’t that we’re not talking about race; it’s that the majority of white Americans aren’t listening.
Read MoreAfter the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, I was a guest on CBC Radio's "Day 6" program to discuss why it's so hard in the U.S. to track police shootings, but why we must. Listen.
Read MoreI appeared on Essence Live with Christina Coleman of NewsOne and host Dana Blair to discuss how we can end police brutality after the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. Watch!
Read MoreDonald Trump and Hillary Clinton each look to extend their delegate leads when five states hold presidential nominating races on Tuesday. I stopped by MSNBC's Meet The Press Daily to discuss if the frontrunners can actually be stopped.
Read MoreI sat down for BRIC TV's "Straight Up" with CNN's Tanzina Vega and WNYC's Rebecca Carroll to discuss the racial politics of the 2016 presidential race. Watch!
Read MoreHillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are misleading African Americans with their plans for these institutions.
Read MoreI sat down with Darian Symoné Harvin for her Am I Allowed To Like Anything (#AIATLA) to discuss what it's like to be a young, Black writer living in NYC, the 2016 Presidential race and what we are the Beyoncés of.
Read MoreI visited Morehouse College -- the nation's only all-male historically black college, and my alma mater -- to speak to students about careers in media and what it's like to be a black journalist. Watch the conversation.
Read MoreI sat down in the ESSENCE LIVE studio to talk politics, #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackGirlMagic with host Dana Blair. Watch the conversation.
Read MoreListen to my interview with Press Play's Madeleine Brand on why black millennials are all fired up with seemingly nowhere to go in 2016.
Read MoreThe Democrats need young black voters. But the political party of our parents doesn’t seem to know how to reach us — the black millennials they can’t afford to lose — this time around.
Read MoreListen to my one-on-one with my old boss, personal finance expert Farnoosh Torabi. We discussed the best career advice I ever got, the lesson I learned from growing up poor and why I'm "so money."
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