Contributor, F2FA
D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. Metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter and culture critic. Getting his start in the late 1990s in print, D.L. joined the growing field of online reporting in 1998. His first big break came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation's first Black political news portal. D.L. has worked in the past for OkayPlayer, MTV News, Metro Connection and several other publications and magazines. D.L., a native Washingtonian, resides in the Greater Washington area.
In nearly every major American city, merchants sell a variety of goods that are cheap replicas of originally high-priced items. Cities, such as New York; Washington, D.C.; and Los Angeles feature...
December 1, 2015 at 4:16 pm
In nearly every major American city, merchants sell a variety of goods that are cheap replicas of originally high-priced items. Cities, such as...
August 4, 2015 at 2:22 pm
In America, the level of mistrust between Black citizens and the police is approaching a dangerous apex and the response from activists and...
July 17, 2015 at 8:37 pm
Sandra Bland (pictured), a 28-year-old Black woman from a Chicago suburb, was found dead in a Texas jail cell this past Monday (July 13) by what...
July 14, 2015 at 12:04 pm
President Barack Obama (pictured) granted a reduction in prison sentences to 46 drug offenders who were charged and convicted under strict...
July 2, 2015 at 11:14 am
In the days since the tragedy that claimed the lives of nine victims at Mother Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina, several churches across the...
June 18, 2015 at 3:05 pm
The town of Charleston in the state of South Carolina is still in shock after a lone White gunman entered a Black church and opened fire, leaving...
May 15, 2015 at 12:38 pm
B.B. King (pictured), considered one of the greatest Blues musicians of his era, has died. For nearly seven decades, King has come to represent...
May 7, 2015 at 3:58 pm
For over the past two decades, the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) has worked to promote the visibility and fortify the roles...
May 6, 2015 at 2:08 pm
The Freedom Rides was a series of protests sparked by civil rights activists in America who banded together to challenge Southern States...
April 27, 2015 at 5:24 pm
Kwame Nkrumah (pictured) emerged as the leading figure in helping Ghana gain independence from European colonizers and rose to become the...