Fear Of Nine-Year-Old Black Girl.
We are living in a world that has gone completely bonkers. How else can you explain what happened to a nine-year-old Black girl who was… Read More »Fear Of Nine-Year-Old Black Girl.
We are living in a world that has gone completely bonkers. How else can you explain what happened to a nine-year-old Black girl who was… Read More »Fear Of Nine-Year-Old Black Girl.
In his concurrence on Students For Fair Admissions, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “In the wake of the Civil War, the country focused on restoring the… Read More »Affirmative Action, DEI, Voting Rights, They Want It All!
The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life. — Ralph Ellison This article is… Read More »Music Emblematic of Our Times. Past, Present, & Future!
Toward the end of my granddaughter’s summer visit, she asked if I would take her to the local library. Her request surprised me as she… Read More »All You Trump Dimwits, Leave Libraries Alone!
Congresswoman Boebert loves being in the news. She is what we call an attention addict. She craves being in front of a camera and needs… Read More »How To Kill Your Political Career, Grope Your Date in Public!
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America, particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded their bitter vintage. — The Oxford History of the American People [1965], ch.1
Atheism denies a supreme being exists, whereas agnosticism is playing it safe by neither denying nor fully acknowledging the existence of God.
If you are a parent and live in a state with a book ban and support it, you are a horrible parent. You should be… Read More »Same Coin: Just Different Sides!
May you live in interesting times, often cited and attributed to the Chinese. Well, it is an interesting aphorism but not of Chinese origin. In… Read More »What Got Tucker Fired, Racism, Bigotry, Stupidity? How About Old Fashion Greed?
I have never seemed to connect with poetry as a form of writing. In conversations with people, they often told me of a poem that… Read More »Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb, Banned In Florida!