What the Fibroid Slayer Told Me That Changed Everything
A conversation with Dr. Pierre Johnson — and the moment I had to be honest about my own choices Black women with fibroids are diagnosed at two to three times the rate of white women. Their disease is more advanced by the time they get care. And when they walk into a doctor’s office looking […]
What Happens When a Conversation Becomes a Teaching Moment
What Dr. IIbram Kendi’s Chain of Ideas Is Really About I want to tell you something about what it takes to sit across from someone whose work you deeply respect and ask them to open up a conversation that most people would rather avoid. Before I sat down to interview Ibram Kendi about Chain of […]
Yolanda Renee King: Black Cotillions, Legacy & Gen Z
She is 18 years old. She is headed to Columbia University to study human rights. And she carries one of the most recognizable names in American history. But when I sat down to talk with Yolanda Renee King — the only granddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King — what moved […]
Black Family Homelessness
How Sharell Matthis Survived Homelessness With Six Kids Black family homelessness in America does not always look the way most people picture it. Sharell Matthis had a home, a husband, six children, and a life she had built piece by piece. And then one morning, the pieces stopped holding together. Sharell Matthis did not choose […]
Black Senior Homelessness: He Worked His Whole Life Homeless
The Hidden Crisis of Black Senior Homelessness Black senior homelessness is rising at a rate that should alarm every one of us. And Donald Gardner’s story puts a human face on a crisis that most people never see coming. He says it was back when he was 68 years old. Donald worked as a cobbler, […]
The Black Experience of Homelessness: When the Safety Net Has Holes
When the safety net has holes, entire families fall through — and the Black experience of homelessness in America is far closer to home than most of us want to admit. That is the driving question behind my new three-part documentary podcast series, Unhoused and Unheard: The Black Experience of Homelessness, now available on The […]
The Black History Board Game Changing How We Learn
When I sat down with Dr. Maxine Bryant for this week’s conversation, I already felt a little intimidated. Not because she was difficult — she was warm and generous from the first moment. But because her knowledge of Black history in education is deep. She’s an award winning journalist who is rooted in decades of […]
What If the Official Story Isn’t the Whole Story? Ida B. Wells, Modern Lynching Investigations, and the Weight of Truth
A conversation with civil rights investigator Jill Collen Jefferson about suspicious deaths, investigative journalism, and the legacy of Ida B. Wells. What if the official story isn’t the whole story? I recently spoke with civil rights investigator Jill Collen Jefferson, founder and director of JULIAN about what she describes as modern-day lynching investigations across the […]
How an Unexpected Interview Led Me to Harriet Tubman’s Descendant
A reflection on journalism, unexpected connections, and how a National Park Service interview led to one of the most meaningful conversations in my ERASED series. How an Unexpected Interview Led Me to Harriet Tubman’s Descendant How an unexpected interview led me to Harriet Tubman’s descendant is a reminder that storytelling, and life, often works best […]
Raising Girls Beyond Fear
Why Raising Girls Beyond Fear Requires Financial Literacy I grew up in a house full of girls, and today when I think about raising girls beyond fear, I realize how much responsibility, faith, and early lessons about womanhood shaped my understanding of empowerment. Responsibility & Financial Literacy in Raising Girls Beyond Fear At times there […]
What Ended Reconstruction?
James Clyburn on the 1876 Election and Why One Vote Still Matters When I was told I had the opportunity to speak to South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn about Reconstruction and how it ended, I was really jazzed. It’s not because he’s a politician or that’s he’s got decades of political clout, but because I […]