Once a week, I spend my afternoon at a local elementary school herding third through fifth grade girls around a small track, attempting to teach them important lessons about life and running. As an assistant...

Professional basketball is the ultimate showcase of the black body. Unlike in hockey, there are actual black players. Unlike in baseball, black kids actually still want to play the sport. Unlike in football,...

“I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay.” With those three sentences, Jason Collins became a household name. Across the country the words “NBA center” and “gay” headlined newspapers...

As Americans, we like to categorize every aspect of our lives. Wrought with stereotypes and cultural ignorance, we expect everyone to conform into our preconceived, often misguided expectations of them....

It’s time to stop pretending like everything is perfect when nothing ever is. I’m not writing this column this semester only because I’m bursting with school pride. I’m writing this because I’m...

Is gay the new black? No. Not at all. Not even close. LGBT people have never and will never be enslaved for over 200 years based off of their sexual orientation. LGBT people will never be subjected to...

One of the biggest changes I experienced during my move from high school to college almost two years ago is that not one person on a college campus expects you to look nice for class. All we ask here is...

There’s something visceral about a concert. There’s something about the community of an audience and the vibe of live music that is unmatched throughout all other forms of entertainment. It’s one...

**Trigger Warning: Extensive discussion on rape and sexual violence** There’s a popular terror instilled in the hearts of even the most audacious of men: that they’ll be falsely accused of rape. While...

I watched my first True/False film this past weekend. I wish I could tell you that it filled some hole in me. Instead, I fear I made it bigger. I squeezed into the last seat in the first row of The...

Black History Month. Gaines-Oldham Black Culture Center. Affirmative action. What do all of the above have in common? There’s the celebration of a culture, the tacit memoir of a history of a people,...

The other night as I was flipping through the channels on the television, I came across a story on income inequality by Bill O’Reilly of _The O’Reilly Factor_. [Having written a past column on minimum...