Something shifted in May 2020. Suddenly, everyone was seeing racial injustice. Everyone was listening to the conversation about racial inequality. Over the course of that summer, as copies of How to Be an Antiracist and So You Want to Talk … Continue reading Sins and Diseases: Looking Back at 2020
Most of the time, the endless scroll of catastrophes on my phone or in the news produces in me only a distant sense of dread. Wars feel far away; natural disasters seem remote. I flick my finger past one heartbreaking … Continue reading The Urgency of Un-Paralyzing
The Census makes clear that America’s demographics are changing. The percentage of white Americans dropped, while percentages of people of color, of multiethnic and multiracial people, increased. Welcome to our emerging reality. To some whites, this is the dreaded harbinger … Continue reading What the Coloring of America Requires of White People
As the events of last summer unfolded, with the murder of George Floyd and so many others, I was struck by a sense of impotence. What could I do to make a difference? Could anyone make a difference? I am … Continue reading Potential
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