There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

The truth is that an intellectual life is available to almost anyone, almost anywhere, if they work hard enough and are given some kind of access point.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.