By Julissa Catalan
Charles Blow is a respected Brooklyn-based writer. An op-ed columnist for The New York Times, he also is a recently published author who often writes about race—including the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. He is Black and bisexual. He is also a single father of three boys—one of whom is a Biology major at Yale University.
In his most recent column, “Library Visit, Then Held at Gunpoint”, Blow recounts the story of his son being racially profiled by Yale campus police.