Maus Trap: McMinn County, TN and the Problem with Rodents

February 17, 2022/

The tendency toward anti-learning to shield kids from hard truths about history—and potentially about themselves—is a road to a very dark place.

Address at the Graves of the Unknown Dead, by Frederick Douglass

August 26, 2017/

We are sometimes asked, in the name of patriotism, to forget the merits of this fearful struggle, and to remember with equal admiration…

July 14, 2016/

You may remember this story. In the early morning hours of October 18, 2015, in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, a 31-year-old drummer and…

July 14, 2016/

Why is it so hard to talk about race?

July 7, 2016/

Is there any chance that being so long in the majority has shielded us from things many Black people experience?

May 20, 2016/

History reminds of the distressing, unbiblical and anti-gospel collusion of church and racism, of cultural-Christianity and hatred.

April 9, 2016/

In 2016 I find few people longing for outhouses with the Sears, Roebuck catalog or the possibility of being lynched.

January 18, 2016/

The oppressed find a kinship the oppressor never knows.

November 12, 2015/

It barely marks the difference between preemie diapers and "big boy" pants since the content is the same, only the volume differs.

November 3, 2015/

Bad kids are not cute. Bad kids turn into cell-dwellers and hashtags. If black lives matter, start showing up at these kids' schools…

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