The Nation – Collected Blogs

by mychaldenzel on February 21, 2013

I recently did a guest-blogging stint over at TheNation.com. Below, you’ll find links to my work.

1/28 – For Black Boys, the NFL — and Traumatic Brain Injury— Can Be Lottery Tickets 

1/29 – Let’s End All Gun Deaths, Not Just Mass Killings

1/31 – On the Routine Criminalization of America’s Black and Brown Youth

2/5 – Michelle, Beyonce and the Fruitless Politics of Respectability

2/6 – Why Ending ‘Stand Your Ground’ Isn’t Enough to Prevent Another Trayvon Martin 

2/8 – President Obama Should Go to Chicago. And Yemen. And Pakistan. And…

2/14 – White People Have to Give Up Racism

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Al Jazeera’s The Stream – Language, Race & Racism in the US

by mychaldenzel on February 21, 2013

Yesterday, I appeared on Al Jazeera English’s The Stream discussing the infamous “n-word” alongside Cornel West, Akiba Solomon, Tim Wise, and Raquel Cepeda. Check the video below.

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Know This! TV + other updates

January 28, 2013

Last week I was in D.C. to do the season premiere episode of Know This! TV with host Ariana Proehl, co-produced by Campus Progress. We discussed President Obama’s second inauguration and agenda items for this next term. You can check out that conversation here. I have a few recent pieces up over at Salon, The [...]

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After Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis: next casualty of this murderous racism

December 16, 2012

From my most recent article for the Guardian:   For me, another name came to mind when I heard the news of Davis’ death: Oscar Grant. It’s not an exact comparison by any means, but I think of Grant, the 22-year-old black man who was shot and killed by Oakland police officer Johannes Mersehle, because of when he was [...]

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HuffPost Live: ESPN Host Questions RG3′s Racial Identity

December 16, 2012

I recently appeared on HuffPost Live to discuss the controversy surrounding ESPN analyst Rob Parker’s comment’s regarding star quarterback Robert Griffin III’s blackness. Check the clip below.    

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Black Women Missing Out on The Economic Recovery

November 19, 2012

From my most recent piece for the Guardian: At the end of 2011, it stood that black women were losing more jobsduring the recovery than had been lost during the recession. It’s not hard to figure out why: as the private sector added jobs, more than 4m as the president reminded us throughout the long campaign, the [...]

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White People Mourning More Than Romney

November 17, 2012

From my most recent piece for The Root: It’s funny, but it also serves as a sad snapshot of just how far we haven’t come. Granted, had Obama lost, there would also have been legions of people crying across the country. But the people featured here aren’t crying about a lost election. They truly appear [...]

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HuffPost Live appearances

November 17, 2012

This week I appeared on two segments for HuffPost Live. For the first, I joined hosts Alicia Menendez and Marc Lamont Hill to discuss the General David Petraeus sex scandal, Republicans and taxes, and legalizing marijuana. In the other, I joined Marc again as he interviewed the author of a new biography on the King [...]

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Speaking Event: Alternatives for Girls

October 22, 2012

October 23rd, I’ll be speaking at an event hosted by Alternatives for Girls, an organization based in Detroit. The event is aimed at ending sex trafficking, and I’ll be speaking about the ways societal attitudes toward women, sex, and masculinity help create the market for sex trafficking and how we can put an end to [...]

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A poor showing: Why the stigma attached to poverty is wrong

October 22, 2012

From my op-ed over at Al Jazeera English: We can not continue to say that the poor don’t vote if we don’t even know who the poor are. We can not misrepresent a people, purposefully shut them out of the electoral process (via voter ID laws, cutting early voting, and refusing to make election day [...]

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