"If You're Alive, You're Afraid" OP ED by Amanda Gorman in NYT 1/23/22 '...If nothing else, this must be known: Even as we've grieved,...

Everywhere the patern was the same: white people enslaved, raped, terrorized, and murdered Black people, mostly for profit and also to...

"Learning to listen is a virtue that whiteness has often avoided." Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

I've come to understand America as a "Pro-Inequality Democracy." Despite the rhetoric, the flags, the slogans, the songs...America is...

When we decided to tell a little something about ourselves, I was hit with the dread of rendering my life’s small choices and big events...

"I thought of all the times I had heard 'But why didn't they fight back?' when slavery was discussed in my classes. I thought of the...

Pg 101) In his 1935 book, Black Reconstruction in America, W. E. B. Dubois wrote that the story the country tells about its relationship...

"Here is the truth about white bodies: They are resilient, just like yours and mine. They can heal, just as you and I can. They do not...

"Whiteness does not equal white fragility. That's the dodge created by white fragility itself--a way for white Americans to avoid the...

"A key factor in the perpetuation of white-body supremacy is many people's refusal to experience clean pain around the myth of race. ...

Quote taken from Nice Racism by Robin Diangelo: "Resmaa (Resmaa Menakem, author of My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the...

"Every white person who hasn't interrogated racism deeply is putting their knee on the necks of People of Color every day" Nice Racism : ...

Generally, my thinking about mission and vision statements led me to offer these generalities. · A mission statement should include: What...

Congratulations to the Honorable Alderwoman Robin Rue Simmons & the Evanston City Council in their success in taking the "first bold...

...Reparations be paid to descendants of enslaved people of color to eradicate the wrongs created by four hundred years of slavery, Jim...