Almost 200 days after Breonna Taylor’s murder, we finally have a verdict — wanton endangerment. Basically, the courts charged Brett Hankinson (not Jonathan Mattingly or Myles Cosgrove) with “wantonly engag[ing] in conduct which creates a substantial danger of death or serious physical injury to another person…under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference…

I was rereading Felix Ever After, an amazing book written by Kacen Callendar about a transgender teen who is grappling with identity and self discovery. As I read, an excerpt gave me pause: What might’ve started as a joke feels a little more serious to me now. …

On July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The officer, Sgt. James Crowley, was responding to a 911 report about a man breaking and entering into the house. Crowley arrested Gates outside his own home after he was shown both Gates’ Harvard…

I remember reading John Howard Griffin’s book, Black Like Me, when I was in high school. The recommender, a white teacher, had told me that it was a poignant book about race in the United States. She applauded the author for his bravery, for his resolve to wear Black face…

Breonna Taylor was murdered over 150 days ago by Louisville police officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove, but Kentucky’s attorney general has yet to file charges. The state’s refusal to prosecute represents a long history of Black women’s dehumanization in the United States, but Taylor’s murder and the…