Maya Angelou said rightly, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.” And stories are about race are both difficult to carry and to tell. So, I am excited at the opportunity that the New York Times has presented to its readers. It is apart of their Op- Docs series […]
Undoing Racism in America’s Cities is a discussion with city leaders and other experts on local efforts to respond to the national crises that have elevated issues of race, racism, racial healing and racial equity.
Part of my task is to make you and I aware of conversations, communities and tools that are connected to the social construct of race. While I am not an “ambulance chaser” when it comes to such matters, I do feel an obligation to write about race- related and racialized events in an effort to […]
“Perhaps…the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.” ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can’t Wait It is strange to me that we have not seen beyond race, that it remains the supreme way in which we understand ourselves and each other. I cannot believe that after nearly […]
It seems that I have a knack for finding hard words. Some would argue that life is a challenge but I have found that there is no life apart from challenge. So hear the words of Carl Wendell Hines Jr.: Now that he is safely dead, Let us praise him. Build monuments to his glory. […]