Shay It’s been 14 years since I lost my mother to a valiant but brief (and ultimately futile) battle with cancer. The loss of my mother remains, even after all these years, one of the single most defining events in my life. She passed away six weeks after I turned 31 and four days after she …
Given that my day job is running an anti-racism organization whose mission is addressing the “white problem” and “shining a spotlight on the roots of racism in white culture with the intention of dealing with racism at its source, as well as with its impact on communities of color” I spend a great deal of …
The year was 1998 and I had returned to school to work on my undergraduate degree. It was my second year in when I took a research class that required being online. Let me refresh your memory: In 1998, less than half of U.S. households had personal computers, barely a third of Americans had cell …