A Highway That Doesn’t Exist Is Strangling a Black Neighborhood
Co-published with Bloomberg City Lab. In the Louisiana city of Shreveport, residents of Allendale have spent decades fighting a highway expansion. Even if they succeed, the neighborhood is …
I was given a house for free – but it already belonged to someone else
ASJA Writing Awards Honorable Mention, Social Change | When I put the house on the market, I uncovered a story of a Black woman losing her home to …
Freedom Dreams: Black Women and the Student Debt Crisis
Co-published with The Intercept. In “Freedom Dreams,” narrated by Nina Turner, Black women talk about how student debt has impacted their lives and what cancellation would mean for …
What Are Other Names for Juneteenth? The U.S. Is Betraying the Spirit of ‘Jubilee Day’
Co-published with Teen Vogue. We’re still waiting on “a real age of emancipation,” writes Braxton Brewington.
Her Name Was Shirley: The Story of Gordon Parks’s ‘Colored Entrance’ Photo
Co-published with Esquire. The photo has been used to exemplify an America that once was—but the story of its subject and the dreams she once had is …
Black Families Passed Their Homes From One Generation to the Next. Now They May Be Lost.
Co-published with The Guardian. Unstable property rights mean Black southerners may survive a flood but lose their home, and it’s causing the racial wealth gap to grow larger.
Forsyth County Meets the New American Majority
Co-published with Slate. What happens in a Whitopia as a red Georgia turns blue?