“I have Asian people in my family,” a white co-worker said as we were having a conversation about family and race. I winced a bit—why are you telling me you have Asian people in your family? Is it so I think you’re cool? Is it so you can try and relate what it means to …
If you haven’t seen Summer of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) yet, please get on it. Stop reading this right now and go spend 117 minutes getting your life better. It’ll be over before you know it and you’ll be fighting the impulse to watch it all over again—and you …
Last summer, millions were declaring that the United States had reached a turning point in its painful racial history. The death of George Floyd appeared to be mobilizing people not just across the country but also elsewhere in the world to care about racial justice. In the United States, protests took place in every state, …