Today is Juneteenth. 155 years ago, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. This was two years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Unfortunately, the slow delivery of this official notice was indicative of the years that followed. Some Americans apparently … Read more
As I continue to educate myself on anti-racism, I have vowed to devote a weekly post to this cause. I have been curating resources for this at a rate that is impossible to sustain, and it has been a bit overwhelming. I don’t want to dump a lot of links on you because you can … Read more
“The thing is, I really don’t see color in my class,” I told my husband and daughter at dinner one night. We were discussing a student who had accused me of being racist (a story I’ll explain in another post), and I was describing my honest surprise at the student’s comment. Of course I’m not … Read more
I haven’t published any posts this week for several reasons, but what has inhibited me the most is the anger that I feel as I watch injustice on top of injustice unfolding in our country. My schizophrenic Twitter timeline that places agonized appeals to repair a system that allows people to consistently murder people of … Read more