Aaron Ross Coleman

Aaron Ross Coleman

Aaron Ross Coleman is a freelance writer from Atlanta, focused on the intersection of economics and racial inequality. Based in New York, he is the Marjorie Deane Fellow at New York University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Aaron has his B.A. in Political Science from Fort Valley State University.

[Photo: Young black man reading a book entitled 'It Was All A Dream.']

‘It Was All a Dream’ Shows How Black Millennials Are Redefining Success in the Post-Obama Era

Aaron Ross Coleman

"Maybe our mobility shouldn’t always be measured like our White millennial peers,” the author writes. “Maybe it’s measured in joy and pleasure.”

Donald Trump Claims Black Americans Are Better Off Since He Became President. Is He Right?

Aaron Ross Coleman

Donald Trump has hastily forgone highlighting the plight of Black Americans who live in communities suffering from severe economic blight in ways that aren't represented in the traditional national employment statistics—all as part of an effort to sell himself as a prolific and efficient executive in chief.

Donald Trump Is Using the Founding Fathers’ Racism to Cloak Present-Day White Nationalism

Aaron Ross Coleman

Hopscotching across disparate time periods and ideologies, Trump's comments conflate the politics of limited progress with those of no progress.

Praising New Orleans’ Post-Hurricane Katrina Comeback Erases Its Displacement of Black Residents

Aaron Ross Coleman

Data suggests that the city's institutions are leaving poor Black residents behind.