Pizza Vs. Abs: Does Anyone Else Struggle With Eating Healthy Over The Weekend?
So even though our long-term selves may wants abs, our short-term selves want pizza.
Africa Doesn’t Need Your Pity (Or Your Condescension)
To pity Africans, and to essentialize and constrict our stories, is to believe that we are inferior.
Civil Debate In A Polarized Culture: Is It Dead?
The problem of course, in my observation, is that many people don’t know how to argue.
Biking The City: 9 Surprising Things Biking Can Teach You About Love, Fear, And Life
But when you try something, the important thing above all, is a discovery of what you really want and don’t want.
How To Be Friends When You’re Religious And Your Friends Aren’t
The religious and the not-so-religious or not-religious-at-all, tend to be equally condemning.
Why Honest Conversations About Race Are Almost Impossible
Is there a subject that is sure to make the average American more uncomfortable than race?
An Ex-Baltimore Police Officer Discusses Racism, Police Brutality, And Why We Desperately Need Police Reform
“I do not have definitive evidence, but I am confident in saying that if I were black, in a poor community, I would be more afraid of the cops than probably anyone else.”
Why Is It So Hard To Be Honest With Ourselves?
“The truth sounds crazy only because people spend much of their days lying to each other. And to themselves.”
There Is No Good Way To Be A Foreigner
But home, to me, is everywhere and nowhere.
Everything You Think You Know About The Homeless Is Wrong
But on a more personal level, I hope we can see ourselves in those who are homeless and vice versa rather than assume that they are somehow different or less than us.