By now you know a few things about me. One is that I am often saying that when you peel back a layer – usually a layer of history – that you find racial injustice. I’m not being rhetorical. For instance, some of the food you are eating today and some of the cotton you are wearing…
My plan was to take a few weeks of not posting anything while I worked to create an actual curriculum…a progression that will take us from wherever we…
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Life Every Voice and Sing was written by James Weldon Johnson, not James Weldon as I erroneously stated. It was written as a poem and later put to music…
During the Super Bowl a number of patriotic songs were sung and played. The Star Spangled Banner, America The Beautiful, and Lift Every Voice and Sing …
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For several days I’ve felt like I should write something about Tyre Nichols - a living, breathing, young Black man who was beaten to death by five Black…
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Hollywood, Popular History, and the Diminution of African American Western History
This weekend, two of us — both lifelong skiers, one Black, one white — were having a conversation about what the ski industry owes Dr. King. Typically…
I posted this last year at this time. But it has stood the test of time and I don’t know how to add to it. So coming at you again. Today we honor the…
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