Spring Sale: Get 1 Year, Save 58%

D. Watkins (page 22)

X: @dwatkinsworld
Instagram: @dwatkinsworld

D. Watkins is an Editor at Large for Salon. He is also a writer on the HBO limited series "We Own This City" and a professor at the University of Baltimore. Watkins is the author of the award-winning, New York Times best-selling memoirs “The Beast Side: Living  (and Dying) While Black in America”, "The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir," "Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope" as well as "We Speak For Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress." His new books, "Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments," and "The Wire: A Complete Visual History" are out now.

Advertisement:

Nikki Giovanni (Peter Cooper)

Why poet Nikki Giovanni doesn’t cry

D. Watkins
Chris Rock (Getty/Ethan Miller)

Chris Rock is this generation’s Richard Pryor

D. Watkins
(AP/John Locher/Salon)

America is a joke right now, a bad one 

D. Watkins

5 ways you can change the world through art

D. Watkins
Sean P. Diddy Combs (Getty/Larry Busacca)

If Diddy ran the NFL: Imagine how the game would change

D. Watkins
(Getty/Ethan Miller/Salon)

Why Mike Pence should take a knee, not walk out

D. Watkins
(Dove)

Dove is done: When a brand shows you it values whiteness above all, believe it

D. Watkins
Mourners in Vegas (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Trauma is the American experience

D. Watkins

David Simon in conversation with Salon: “You gotta learn the cadence of people’s lives”

D. Watkins
People scramble for shelter after gunfire at a country music festival on October 1, 2017. (Getty/David Becker)

Honor the victims of Las Vegas by taking on the NRA

D. Watkins

“The Wire” creator David Simon: “If nothing happened after Newtown . . . nothing’s gonna happen now”

D. Watkins

The Salon 5: How to win any argument

D. Watkins
Rick Pitino, Louisville head coach (AP/Jeff Roberson)

If colleges won’t pay student athletes, someone will

D. Watkins

Here’s the secret to winning people over — even if you’re very different

D. Watkins

The 5 most racist incidents in sports this year

D. Watkins
Candace Owens (Youtube)

Candace Owens of Red Pill Black, the toxic right’s newest African-American star

D. Watkins
(Getty/Ralph Freso)

Donald Trump should stick to his job, or get out

D. Watkins

When will black men feel safe in America?

D. Watkins
(Devin Allen)

In “A Beautiful Ghetto,” Devin Allen shoots from the heart

D. Watkins
(Getty Images)

How to argue safely in a relationship

D. Watkins
iPhone 8, iPhone X and iPhone 8 Plus (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

Life in iPhone hell

D. Watkins
(Facebook)

I won’t stop mourning Kenneka Jenkins

D. Watkins
(Getty/Eric Baradat)

Back to school after a turbulent summer: How can we help kids celebrate life in these times?

D. Watkins

“Yo, I’m not going to die young”: A chef’s journey from diabetes diagnosis to community health

D. Watkins
« Previous
Page: 22
Next »