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  • black history month day 7: the work is ongoing

    It barges in, muddy boots and all, and sits at your kitchen table like it owns the place. I’ve lived long enough to know the feeling. The quiet dread that tells you something has…

  • Black History Month Day 5: The Myth of Equal Opportunity

    Some truths sit quietly in the background of our national story, shaping lives without ever being spoken aloud. They show up in neighborhoods that look very different from one another, in retirement accounts that…

  • black History month day 4: Education is the battlefield

    Black History Fact:In many Southern states, it was illegal for enslaved people to learn to read. Punishments included beatings, imprisonment, and death. Ignorance has always been enforced. Black history makes clear that education threatens…

  • BLACK HISTORY MONTH DAY 3: Resistance is the story

    Some mornings, the fatigue arrives before the coffee has a chance to help. Not physical tiredness, but the deeper kind. The kind that comes from knowing that telling the truth—again and again—costs something. That…

  • Black History Month Day 2: The Lie of “A Few Bad People”

    Hello readers! Some truths take a long time to land, not because they are complicated, but because they are inconvenient. Black History Month invites us to sit with those truths without rushing to soften…

  • Black History Month – Day 1 Black History Is Not a Feel-Good Story

    Black History Fact:In 1619, enslaved Africans were brought to what would become the United States—before the country existed, before democracy, before the Constitution. Black history does not enter America as a footnote. It enters at…

  • The Shutdown Stripped the Emperor Naked

    Well, folks — if you were still squinting to see whether the GOP had any shred of empathy left for ordinary Americans, the shutdown just switched the lights on and handed you binoculars. What…

  • They’re going to need more than name calling and lies!

    We are witnessing a full-throttle campaign of delegitimization being waged against anyone who dares to resist the presidency of Donald Trump and the Republicans backing him. Make no mistake: this is not about a…

  • 🎶 Beyoncé Meets Beethoven: A Night of Pure Joy

    Last night, I had the absolute pleasure of taking my Beyoncé-superfan granddaughter to the symphony at the Hilbert Circle Theatre. And let me tell you — when you combine Queen Bey’s fire with Beethoven’s…