A few days ago, I sat in disgust reading how Texas Rep. Nicole Collier was being held in the Texas legislative chamber because she refused to sign a permission slip agreeing to surveillance and a police escort to ensure that she would return to chambers. I found myself wondering, “Where are all the prominent anti-racism …
A few days ago, I was scrolling on Facebook and came across a horrific and racist caricature of a wonderful public servant, Deqa Dhalac. The caricature was being circulated by Maine gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles, who decided to dig up an old video of now-state Rep. Dhalac when she became the first Somali-American mayor in …
As a writer, I deeply feel the idea that while words can evolve in their definitions, that they have meaning, and that such meaning should not be changed or corrupted consciously for no good reason. Remigration is one of those words. On the basic face of it, re-migration (and I use the hyphen to differentiate …