D Watkins

Freelance

D Watkins is a Baltimore writer whose work has been published in Vice and Salon. His debut memoir, Cook Up, will be released by Grand Central in 2015.

Written by D Watkins

A Black girl with a pink Dora backpack walking on a path, surrounded by other people wearing backpacks, next to a metal fence.

essayEducation

The school of failure

The worst public schools do one thing very well – they teach poor black kids how to stay in the American underclass

D Watkins

A man sitting on steps against a weathered building, writing in a notebook with headphones around his neck.

essayBiography and memoir

Stoop stories

My black friends call it Murderland. My white friends call it Charm City, a town of trendy cafés. I just call it home

D Watkins