race matters

When I was six, I asked my parents why there weren’t people who looked like us on TV...

Including a new novel and funny TV show.

This is a deeply personal column.

All writers are hungry for compliments about their work, so...

When my goddaughter was called the N-word at school, I was heartbroken but not surprised...

"Black people were never in romance novels, unless it was as a hooker."

"That’s some white people shit," I imagined everyone thinking.

When I was little, I never learned to swim...