Areva Martin

I can train. I can try. I can dream, yet I can’t run a 3-minute mile. Mikey Brannigan can, and he has autism. But autism doesn’t have him. Mikey is headed to Rio in two weeks to represent the US and compete in the Paralympic Games. And though there are countless amazing stories to be told about the

Dear Mr. Trump, I’m sorry but Black women didn’t get the memo on how poorly educated we are. I know this is what you believe because, according to you, our schools stink and we live in squalor!  It’s not that folks like you haven’t tried to convince us for decades that we’re an abject, downtrodden

#Lochtegate is more than just a hashtag on social media. It symbolizes the public scandal that 12 time Olympic medal swimmer Ryan Lochte finds himself in as he finishes the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and awaits the decision of the United States Olympic commission on any disciplinary action he might face. This entire situation

Medal-winning swimmers or world-class liars? That’s what the world is trying to decipher as US Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte and three of his teammates–Jimmy Feigen, Gunnar Bentz and Jack Conger– weave a nefarious web of conflicting stories about a wild night out on the town in Rio. Vandalizing a gas station, urinating on walls and

Something odd is happening in Milwaukee. A 23-year-old African-American man was shot and killed by a police officer on Saturday. But this time the narrative is slightly different. The officer is also African-American. Rather then release the videotape of the shooting Milwaukee’s top brass is playing the race card. Milwaukee officials have reiterated time and

I’ve spent hours trying to figure out how to condense this article from the would-be thousand-page piece to something manageable that folks would read. Really, I could spend hours writing about why Trump’s speech in Wisconsin yesterday is insulting to African-Americans. But given that most folks have better things to do with their time than