Breonna Taylor, Kenneth Walker, and Black kinship — I’m thinking about Breonna Taylor being shot to death in the home that she shared with her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker. I’m thinking about how they were each other’s chosen kin. I’m thinking about how white sociologists have always refused to recognize Black families as legitimate. I’m thinking about how Breonna…

Zoé Samudzi said this in a YouTube Live discussion last week. Here’s the full statement: In order for a nation-state to exist, it has to maintain a monopoly on legitimate violence. There is no contesting the State that the State understands outside of an attempt to undermine the monopoly on…

As early reports are showing that the nation is beginning to see a flattening of the curve, proving the effectiveness of staying home, calls to prematurely reopen the economy are ramping up again. Not because it’s best for public health, but because people are restless. The question posed to us…

Around this time of year, I notice a lot of people appreciating Resurrection as a concept, a symbol, a hypothesis. It’s easier to acknowledge the meaning and utility of Resurrection when we keep our distance. When we implicate the mind but not the body. It’s more difficult to admit that…

Today is the second day in a holy trinity of Christian observances. Yeterday, Good Friday, was the observation of Jesus’s crucifixion. It was grief. Tomorrow, Easter, is the observation of Jesus’s triumph over death and suffering. It is joy. Today, Holy Saturday, is, in many ways, an observation of absence…

It’s been said that the FDR Administration implemented the New Deal because, when white people started experiencing the kind of economic suffering during the Great Depression that was typical of the everyday lives of black people, it became clear that drastic measures should be taken to alleviate hardship. History doesn’t…

From New York Magazine: Donald Trump has released what may be the last budget proposal of his presidency, and the contents are predictably unsettling. The spending cuts he has proposed are plentiful, and they are steep; they would knife what’s left of the American welfare state to the bone. Trump…

Disclaimer: If Medium allowed us to edit titles, I’d change this one to read “Your coalition is a choice.” The mainstream Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists attempting a Party takeover have something important in common — an opportunistic relationship to black voters. They like the idea of being associated…

For the past couple of days, I’ve been writing about the Democratic Party’s mishandling of impeachment. My view is that, in committing an act of insurgency, it doesn’t make much strategic sense to convince people that you’re right by taking a moderate approach. More persuasive is going for broke and…