Spring Sale: Get 1 Year, Save 58%

D. Watkins (page 30)

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:

Demonstrators protest outside of the courthouse in response to a hung jury and mistrial for Officer William Porter, one of six Baltimore city police officers charged in connection to the death of Freddie Gray, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015, in Baltimore Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (AP)

Inflicting more pain on Baltimore: Mistrial in Freddie Gray case yet another example of system failing us

D. Watkins
(AP)

Want a gun? Take a bullet: Take this, gutless NRA cowards — you can have a gun, once you understand the pain of being shot

D. Watkins
(AP/Ben Earp)

Dear white allies after Charleston: Please understand this about your privilege

D. Watkins
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Cleveland Police Department shows Timothy Russell, one of two unarmed people killed in a hail of gunshots following a high-speed chase in November 2012. A Cleveland police officer has been found not guilty in the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire after a high-speed chase. The judge's verdict Saturday, May 23, 2015 for Michael Brelo comes after a four-week trial on two counts of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of Russell and Malissa Williams on Nov. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Cleveland Police Department, File) (AP)

It doesn’t matter if we stay or run: Killer cops are playing a video game with black lives

D. Watkins
Baltimore, May 1, 2015. (Reuters/Eric Thayer)

Dangling a bit of justice doesn’t make us equal: What’s next in Baltimore

D. Watkins
(AP/Patrick Semansky)

Cops are the terrorists in our neighborhood: On Freddie Gray, another victim of police brutality

D. Watkins
A photo of the author. (David Manigault)

Black history bulldozed for another Starbucks: Against the new Baltimore

D. Watkins
A photo of the author (David Manigault)

My neighborhood revolution, one letter at a time

D. Watkins

Too poor for pop culture

D. Watkins
(AP/Rich Addicks)

Screw the national anthem

D. Watkins
A photo of the author. (Heezy Bear)

Gunplay is all I know

D. Watkins
(Heezy Bear (heezybear.com))

Poor black people don’t work?: Lessons of a former dope dealer

D. Watkins
A photo of the author.

How glamorizing drugs is killing black kids

D. Watkins
A photo of the author in East Baltimore (Dave Manigault)

Too poor for pop culture

D. Watkins
« Previous
Page: 30
Next »