The older I get, the more I am thankful for the awakening I’m witnessing in black America—an awakening that involves black adults specifically passing on a love of blackness to our children. One such adult is Lawrence Lindell, a Compton-based illustrator who created a...

I remain astonished that a great many people still defend "Sis with the box braids and the fake Black daddy" contriving a fake racial history for personal gain.

I attribute much of this to cynical contrarianism—the belief that unfavorable opinions are synonymous with...