Sept 15, 2014: Mychal Denzel Smith: The Nation: How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism

Aug 13, 2013: Mychal Denzel Smith: The Nation:  Ending Stop-and-Frisk, Keeping the Racism

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Mychal Denzel Smith is a contributing writer at The Nation, a blogger at TheNation.com and a Knobler Fellow at the Nation Institute. He is also a freelance writer and social commentator. His work on race, politics, social justice, pop culture, hip hop, mental health, feminism and black male identity has appeared in various publications, including The Guardian, Ebony, theGrio, the Root, Huffington Post and GOOD.