Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was always conscious of this status, what took precedent was my unfettered love of the game.

Supporting black professional athletes was taken seriously in my home.

Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces where learning can be both cultivated and encouraged.

Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the injustice of the past, we open up the possibility of using schools as a means of reducing inequality.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.