There may be hope yet for relations between white Donald Trump voters and non-Uncle Tom blacks — America may not be as divided as we think. That's what I discovered last weekend during a book tour stop at the Southwest ...

Trump’s appeal to black America is ludicrous — but that doesn’t mean Obama was our savior. Trump’s choice of Don King as a black surrogate is insulting — and we don’t need him to tell us Obama is imperfect.

Social context is interesting. A few years back, I had a white coworker who viewed Thanksgiving as a holiday that all Americans should proudly celebrate, even the Native ones. To her, it was more than a time for family ...

Americans can just go to Cuba now, thanks to President Obama, and it’s relatively cheap to do so, especially if you book a Southwest "Wanna Get Away" fare and stay at an Airbnb, so I Sew out on a whim. To summarize my ...

Nate Parker is not a victim: “The Birth of a Nation” filmmaker needs to stop talking about his innocence. His “vindication” is beside the point. The problem is rape culture, and Parker’s past is part of his film’s message.

Last April Terrill Thomas, a 38-year-old inmate in the Milwaukee County Jail suffering from severe mental illness, died of “profound dehydration.” He spent his last days pleading — begging — for something to drink, after ...

What’s an activist to do? We fight, we plan, we petition, we strategize -- and for what? Last week, Baltimore County released a statement saying that charges will not be filed against the officers who shot and killed a ...

A memo from hell: Donald Trump says I live there, along with every other black and brown American — but here’s the true hell he’ll never understand: Black people and Latinos are “living in hell,” Trump says. Time to tell ...