Shay “Why are you always talking about race?” This question was recently posed to me and while I was able to deflect and lighten the mood, the truth is the question annoyed me. We so desperately want to be a post-racial nation when all the evidence suggests that we are nowhere near being post-racial. It will …
As many of you know, I have recently accepted a position with Community Change Inc. (CCI) in Boston, MA to come on board as their next Executive Director starting in January 2014. What you may not know is that CCI has been in the trenches for 45 years as one of the oldest, continuously operating …
There is a great clip floating around the internet by Ash Beckham who recently spoke about her experience of being asked by a four year old if she were a boy and the universal experience of coming out of a closet. In our culture the term “coming out of the closet” is often used to …