For most of my 40-something years of life, I’ve lived in the suburbs: the neighborhoods my family lived in strongly resemble the one I chose to buy my home in, which has a diverse range of families from different cultures, … Read the rest
Here we go again.
Shortly after my Dr. Frances Cress Welsing interview showed up in today’s Briefing, a reader wrote in doing 2 things: admitting to being ignorant about racism, yet displaying the arrogance and entitlement to make it EVERYONE … Read the rest
Nia brought home an intriguing assignment weeks after becoming a second grader.
A note from her homeroom teacher came attached with a worksheet and detailed a lesson using Kevin Henkes’ book,
“Chrysanthemum.” The lesson was intended to help learn classmates’ … Read the rest
I knew that I was wading into instant drama when I wrote and submitted my post-‘verdict’ Trayvon Martin column. I had written of race issues before as a Briefing columnist, and as a Black woman who’s lived in the South … Read the rest
There’s no way for her to remember the event, thankfully, but my daughter Nia experienced her first brush with stereotyping when she was just a few minutes old.
After hours of arduous, but ineffective labor, my obstetrician, Dr. B., told … Read the rest