8 Questions with Dr. Carol Anderson
“To me, policing hasn't gotten any better. We still have unarmed black people just being gunned down in their grandma's backyard.”
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“To me, policing hasn't gotten any better. We still have unarmed black people just being gunned down in their grandma's backyard.”
"Hip-hop was the first place where I saw people using words in a way that I would identify as beautiful."
I know that I have a platform — why not use that influence for good? Rather than just kind of sitting on the sidelines.
"Dallas has been one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. But it's still got this wound in its history that it continues to struggle with."
One of the dark sides of social media is online harassment. What is Instagram doing to combat it?
Let’s just start, right off the bat, by breaking some exclusive news, all right?
My latest interview is with someone who needs little introduction — Emmitt Smith. Emmitt was one of the first people I met when I moved to Dallas.
He dropped out of Harvard to become an entrepreneur. Wait till I tell him I dropped out, too.
"I'm not worried about Kaepernick. I'm worried about the rest of us."