In a recent op-ed for the Houston Chronicle, “Black People Should Feel Safe With a Face Mask, but We Don’t,” I wrote that I wake up every day “with the intention to live, but as... Read More

Like so many areas of society, the US child welfare system is feeling the effects of the novel coronavirus. A recent report by the Marshall Project sites family court closures and established foster parents wary... Read More

The push to protect reproductive rights has never been stronger, necessitated by the growing wave of conservative-leaning judges and religious conservatives trying to control what women do with their bodies. Yet, as anyone who walked... Read More

In January the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that a lawyer named David Fowler, representing the Family Action Council of Tennessee’s Constitutional Government Defense Fund, wrote letters to all ninety-five county clerks in the state... Read More

On a brisk, blue-sky morning in the autumn of 2019, outside the New York State Supreme Court Building in Manhattan and across the street from Thomas Paine Park, protesters were chanting: Two, four, six, eight!... Read More

It’s impossible in US society not to frequently encounter the demand to vote, no matter what, no matter for whom, as a basic civic duty. Voting is supremely important, we’re told, a right, a responsibility,... Read More

How did you learn about sex? Were you taught that it’s a natural part of life or that it’s a sin? Did you receive medically accurate information that prepared you to make safe and responsible... Read More