Chadwick Boseman’s Death Brought Our Collective Grief to a Breaking Point
Any one tragedy we’ve endured in 2020 would be enough for a year. Instead, we’re being crushed by an endless deluge.
Equality
From The Sales Floor to the Office: An Open Letter to My Younger Professional Self
Things you learn after years of being a token in the workplace
The Black Radical Success Story Your History Class Ignored
The Reconstruction era as it’s taught…
The Unbreakable Cycle of Racism
It has to change. And I must believe it will.
I’m Not Your Poster Child for Workplace Diversity
Why won’t companies quit slapping a Band-Aid on things and make some actual meaningful changes?
This Week In Racism: We’re Sad to Report That Clayton Bigsby Is Real
It’s an embarrassment of riches in our new weekly roundup of the world’s most pathetic people!
America’s Black Mayors Promise Change, but Don’t Go Far Enough
Despite marching and renaming streets…
I’m No Longer Using My White Voice at Work
Sorry to bother you with this latest 2020 self-discovery
This Week in Racism: We Thought Baseball Liked Hitters, Not Hitler
Welcome once again to our weekly roundup of the world’s most pathetic people!
Are Black Men Saving Luxury Retail During the Pandemic?
Black purchasing power is growing far faster than its White counterpart — and now we need to figure out how to leverage it
All I Have Is Rage
Letting go of my anger feels impossible when anger is all there is
This Week in Racism: Walm-Mart Nazis and Arkansas Being Arkansas
It’s an embarrassment of riches in our new weekly roundup of the world’s most pathetic people!
We Can’t Open Schools, but the Alternative Is Worse for Black Children
Thanks to the digital divide, remote learning threatens to jeopardize a generation of at-risk youth
Two cities start the reparations conversation — will the country follow?
Welcome to Minority Report, a weekly newsletter from the LEVEL team that packs an entire week into a single email. From the long road to…
A Black Man, a Ken, and a Karen Walk Into a Zoom Room
Clinging to the advantages of Whiteness is a…
Breonna Taylor Is Not A Meme
It’s good to spread awareness — but let’s actually do something instead of relying on punchlines.
The Man Whose Surveillance Camera Sparked a National Uprising
The footage taken outside Dragon Wok…
It’s All Fun and Games Till A White Person Asks to Fondle Your Fro
When workplace morale-boosting activities go from innocent fun to inclusion fail
People Didn’t Die for a Whitewashed, Corporatized Pride Month
Rallies like Brooklyn Liberation are a…
My Ex-Bosses Are Scrambling to Not Get Canceled
Amid a widespread workplace reckoning, their apologies seem disingenuous and borne of White guilt
Why Black People ‘Resist Arrest’
It was used as a justification for Rayshard Brooks’ and George…
The Battle to Defeat Robert E. Lee in a Kentucky Town
One war veteran and attorney — and, yes…
Don’t Celebrate White People Being Late to the Fight
Yes, this moment is different from other moments…
The Weight of White Guilt in the Workplace Is Too Damn Heavy
My coworkers — bless their hearts — are making a tough time even worse
Why Racism Feels the Way It Does
The killings of innocent Black men and women sparked the blaze, but…
There’s No Such Thing as a Pretty Protest
Critics of riotous rallies are missing the point
Maybe Lives Do Need to Be Torn Apart
Before our nation erupted, Christian Cooper extended graciousness…
What We Should Have Learned From the L.A. Riots
As the director of a documentary on the Rodney King…
5 Celebrities Who Should Probably Sit This One Out, Ranked
When the going gets tough, the famous get ready to talk without thinking