I was 18 years old when Michael Brown was murdered by a police officer in Ferguson, MO, in 2014. So was Michael Brown. A month earlier in New York, 44-year-old Eric Garner died from a police chokehold...

America’s history of aggressive policing comes from centuries of ruin. In the mid-19th century, a time when America peaked in disenfranchisement of human rights and basic living necessities, white property...

Of the many mythical creatures of old well suited to explain the meaning of New Years, it is the magical pedigree of the Phoenix that does it best. In Greek mythology, this legendary bird in association...

On the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination and the 53rd anniversary of the slaying of Emmitt Till, there reaps a resurgence of the so called “America Dream” in retrospect to the infamy...

There is no exact formula, no mathematical equation, no metric unit or omnipresent methodology to measure written works. Each piece, like the artist writing or typing, is special within its own pens and keyboards....

I graduated from Radford University in May with a Bachelor of Science degree in Media Studies and a Minor in Political Science. During the annual Multicultural Ceremony, more commonly known as the Donning...