Perils of parenting while black

You may have heard about the brief sensation a video made when the recording of a black mother beating her teenage son went viral. The 50-second video, soon broadcast on CBS and CNN, was shot the day of Freddie Gray’s funeral in April, when hundreds of Baltimore...

“Black goggles” and police brutality

By now you’ve probably seen or heard about the video of McKinney, Texas, Police Cpl. Eric Casebolt’s outrageous and abusive behavior toward a group of black teens at a pool party celebrating the end of the school year, which included pulling a gun on...