The Life of A Second-Generation Nigerian American
Everyone in the Community, a tight-knit group of Nigerian diaspora located in the United States, wants to see me get married. To them, marriage and progeny define an existence. Oftentimes, I can hold...
View ArticleKetanji Brown Jackson Is Hope
A week ago, shortly after the Supreme Court voted to maintain status quovoting rights for black Americans in Alabama, followed by their jettisoning of the Independent State Legislature appeal, a policy...
View ArticleWe Cannot Let The Most Dangerous, Uncharismatic, and Hateful Politician in...
In my sixteenth year of being an avid connoisseur and purveyor of politics, I have become addicted to monitoring the game. Of course, it began with the advent of Barack Hussein Obama, a product of...
View ArticleMy Fifth-Grade Students Called Me A Racist
The longest day of my life, when the passage of seconds felt like minutes and the ticking of minutes felt like hours, took place in early May 2009. Consequently, I would age ten years on a day that...
View ArticleThese Six Supreme Court Justices Exacerbated A Young Rape Victim's Trauma
A few weeks ago, I was enraptured by the news of the day, as former President Donald J. Trump, dismissively referred to as Mr. Trump by members of the federal judiciary, awaited his inevitable fate. It...
View ArticlePachinko Is a Universal Immigrant Story
During a pivotal scene in Pachinko, the sprawling and multigenerational account of a Korean family, Sunja, the main female protagonist, assiduously endeavors to remove blood from the shirt of Hansu,...
View ArticleClarence Thomas is A Modern Day Slave
While agonizing over the latest tragic and misguided decision handed down by the radically conservative Supreme Court majority, I came across an article written for The Hill. The author is interviewing...
View ArticleVirginia Early Voting Numbers Look Good
Frustratingly, I scoured the internet for days, hoping to find any sort of information on early voting in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. I thought about giving up this morning, that is until I...
View ArticleI Wish I Could Have Read this Memoir 20 Years Ago
I was twenty-six years old in 2003, young, strong, virile, and ambitious, a magnet for young women and men. I lived in New York City, studying and performing in the theatre, ostensibly my chosen...
View ArticleI'm Building a House In Nigeria, and Ensuring my Father's Legacy
This past June marked the fifteenth year since we purchased our family home. That is fifteen revolutions around the sun, an undisputed fact of existence that routinely blows my mind. Significant...
View ArticleKetanji Brown Jackson Continues to Model Ethical Behavior for the Other Black...
Two years ago, as her confirmation hearing marched forward, Ketanji Brown Jackson, on her way to becoming the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, stood firm against withering questions...
View ArticleThe Historic Humiliation of a Historic Black Man
Seventeen years ago, in the middle of summer, I opened the front door of my tiny apartment building. Half a dozen police officers were waiting for me in the adjoining parking lot, their guns drawn and...
View ArticleObama Was Too Black and Biden Is Too Old
Some sixteen years ago, two future U.S. presidents stood on the same debate stage, engaged in a spirited discussion. Barack Hussein Obama, a young and talented United States Senator based in Illinois,...
View ArticleCovid-19 Shackled My People. Joe Biden Helped Us To Break Free
Approximately four years ago, I lost an uncle to COVID-19, the virus responsible for infecting and killing a disproportionate number of black and Hispanic people. Uncle Cletus was not a blood relative,...
View ArticleI Used to Admire Ronald Reagan
I am forty-seven years old, middle-aged, the same age as Barack Obama when he assumed the presidency in 2008, becoming one of the few men in American history to achieve this feat before the fiftieth...
View ArticleProsecuting Donald Trump Has Become a Black Job
Recently, Donald Trump sat for an interview with Rachel Scott, an ABC News Congressional Correspondent and member of the National Association of Black Journalists. During some tense exchanges, Rachel...
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