The following are excerpts of a discussion about white denial. Bran is Black, Heather is white. Heather: When we were talking the other day, and please correct me if I’m wrong in how I’m portraying it, but, you said you were tired of white people exclaiming, “I never knew!” when they hear about the brutality …
Before the pandemic I toured as a musician and storyteller. It was just last winter when I was performing in Ohio, Texas, Alaska, and at home in Maine, but it feels like a lifetime ago and even the stages in Maine feel a million miles away. I was supposed to be in London at the …
The headline in the New York Times a couple days ago read: 12,000 More White Children Return to N.Y.C. Schools Than Black Children. I will admit it’s a slightly misleading headline, but it’s also a very telling one that has real implications when we look at the impact of race in this COVID-19 pandemic. First, …