I grew up in a Black America where our history didn’t get the full coverage and respect that it was due. It was a time when too many white folks at best strived to be color blind and reduce racial differences to the cringe-inducing melting pot concept. In the 70s through the very early 90s …
My writing for the last several months has focused more on political and current events, but today I need to take a detour back to my lane of anti-racism work, because there is something that has been gnawing at me that I finally can put into words. Over the last year, the world has been …
It wasn’t that long ago in the United States that a white person could say or do harmful things to a Black person—including lie on them to get them in trouble—and, well, there would be few (if any) legal repercussions. Emmett Till, anyone? A white lady lied about a Black child’s actions, and he lost …