Many of us are paying more attention now to the ways the system grinds away under its own power. In this article, I’m going to mention some recent decisions my own municipality has made, as if it is business as...

Imagine for a minute that you have a hankering to go to some far distant land that you have heard about. You’ve heard that the people there dress differently, speak another language, grow different crops, and live in homes constructed...

I’ve been watching Oprah’s special, “Where Do We Go From Here.” In this show, she is having a conversation with several prominent Black writers, researchers, change agents, and artists about their reactions to the murder of George Floyd.  As you...

  Many White individuals have been engaged in public condemnations of racism since May, when George Floyd was murdered. It’s tempting to see all this activity as a new age for America, a surge toward racial justice. It could be...