My Aunt Maryam never let us leave her presence without the same farewell: "Stay woke and watch your back." She was our matriarch. She introduced my Mama to Islam and to Malcolm before I was born, and for the rest of her life she kept...

"What and who is your true enemy?"— a question my parents asked me my whole life The Tuskegee dress code has been our timeline the last few weeks. On the...