Damon Young

Damon Young is the author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays.

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There's No Quick Fix for White Supremacy in America

White Americans are finally waking up to the fatal consequences of white supremacy. But there's no quick solution for foundational rot

By Damon Young

How I Came to View the American Flag as a Threat

As the four of us pedaled along the Monongahela River and through McKeesport, Pa. — a sleepy steel town 11.9 miles from downtown Pittsburgh — I interrupted our debate about Ghostface’s place in America’s literary...

By Damon Young

How Do I Convince My Little Black Girl That She Can Be Whatever She Wants to Be in America?

It was more than a year and a half after our daughter was born that I finally shared with my wife my thoughts from our first week as parents. After driving back from Home Depot,...

By Damon Young
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