The Autumn season brings the year to a glorious crescendo of color, “True Colors.” Cooler temperatures withdraw the masking of the greening chlorophyll to reveal each leaf’s true colors. We commonly call it fall foliage. In the same way, America’s … Continue reading The October Theme, True Colors
Thank you for your interest in Three-Fifths Magazine. We are growing, innovating, and challenging society to change through a thoughtful, responsible conversation that exposes fundamental systems of longstanding socially constructed racial divides, hierarchies, caste, and classism in American culture, no … Continue reading October Has Us Falling In Love With The Season Of Generosity
“Tell me where it hurts” are the brief yet comforting words our primary care, ER, or Surgical physician says to us. This is often followed up by, “I can give you something for the pain.” Lucy, Anarcha, and Betsey are … Continue reading Tell Me Where It Hurts
Dr. Jerry Andrew Taylor serves as an Associate Professor at Abilene Christian University. With a passion for promoting racial understanding and spiritual action, he also holds the position of Founding Director of the ACU Carl Spain Center on Race Studies … Continue reading Guest Contributor, Dr. Jerry Andrew Taylor
September is the month that loses the most daylight as the cool and shortened days of Autumn lie just beyond the horizon. The theme for September is Empathy. “Empathy: -the power of understanding and imaginatively entering into another person’s feelings -identification … Continue reading The September Theme: Empathy
During these lazy warm and welcoming summer days, I enjoy relaxing drives with my lovely wife. Following in my late father’s footsteps, I found it convenient to find a driveway to use as a turnaround in U-Turn-prohibitive Central Ohio. However, … Continue reading Hands up, Don’t Shoot,
Just days away from the anniversary of the March for Jobs and Freedom, better known as the March on Washington, as memories of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. resurrect many of his enduring words. Among these are Dr. King’s phrase “Giant Triplets” which referenced the Intersections … Continue reading The August Theme: Law and Order?
It was a crystal-clear day in early September, one day before my first day of another school year, this time at a brand-new school. I was playing in our newly sodden back yard while other children started classes. Daydreams flooded … Continue reading My Nappy Roots
Whether you refer to the fall in the Garden of Eden, America’s original sin, Alex Haley’s wrenching novel and movie series, or the point in your life where innocence was lost, and you discovered that you were different. For some, … Continue reading The July Issue, “Roots”
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