We all learn from failure. Our mistakes become the bridge to our successes, teaching us what works and what doesn’t, so that the next time we muster the will to try, we’ll succeed. But nefarious actors can also learn from failure. And that, unfortunately, is where we find ourselves with…

All journalists have complicated relationships with Twitter. For Black journalists, the relationship is particularly fraught. For Black female journalists, it’s truly treacherous. Journalists are in the business of conveying information. Some of it they find themselves. Other information they…

I grew up during the Cold War, when, in elementary school, we still participated in bomb drills. A bell would ring or horn would blow and we would duck and cover, or in some teachers’ classrooms, just put our heads down on our desks. From the videos of utter destruction caused by nuclear weapons…

In 1994, I was a young journalist in the information graphics department at The Detroit News, just two years out of college. In April of that year, the Rwandan genocide — a war of ethnic tensions — erupted, resulting in 100 days of unspeakable carnage. The United States, still stinging from…

Yes, he came to dinner. In the summer of 2014, I received word through a friend that I was being asked to a dinner in Los Angeles that would include Sidney Poitier. I’m not easily star-struck. As you can imagine, in my line of work, you meet all types. Being easily impressed is an…

Mississippi may be about to double down on its dubious distinction as the state where the tide of progress is blocked and pushed back. During Reconstruction, Mississippi became a Black power center in this country. There were not only more Black people than white ones, there were also more…

Nothing better exemplifies the gaping political divide in this country than our embarrassing and asinine vaccine response. Donald Trump’s scorched-earth political strategy has fooled millions of Americans into flirting with death. And now thousands are once again dying for it. Almost from the…