| No Images? Click here   Waiting for a meeting at Starbucks. Golfing. Barbecuing. Checking out of an Airbnb. Napping in a common area of our dorms. Moving into our own homes. These are just a few of the everyday activities that black people in America do not have the luxury of doing without being perceived as a criminal, recent headlines prove. We want to hear your stories of driving while black, walking while black, partying while black, etc., through our project “____ While Black.” Has someone called the police on you for merely existing in a space you have every right to be in? Have cops ever used your complexion as a reason to question your presence? Do you constantly find yourself explaining why you deserve to occupy space without having to be interrogated by it? We want to hear your stories. Send us a message at whileblack@huffpost.com or tell your story via voicemail at (347) 829-4590 and leave a name and number so we can reach you. You can also reach us via our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages using the hashtag #WhileBlack.  In case you missed it
 What's trending After one woman went low, this community went high.Two weeks after a white woman called the police on a black family for setting up a charcoal grill in an Oakland, California, park, area residents threw a massive cookout in the same park, flooding the area with music, food, dancing and unity.Videos taken at Lake Merritt on Thursday show people jumping rope, picnicking and even doing the electric slide while enjoying the public space. It’s fitting that Keo Chaad O’Neal was a history major, because the college graduate is already making it.O’Neal says he’s the first openly trans man to graduate from Spelman College, America’s first private, liberal arts historically black college for women.O’Neal shared two smiling snapshots of himself in his graduation attire on Twitter that subsequently went viral. HuffPost talked to the recent graduate about his journey at Spelman and what it’s like to be a trans man at an all-women college.
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