Confronting The Persistence Of Race

06.04.2023 __ “Ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether Continue reading →

Amanda Gorman: “Where can we find light In this never-ending shade?”

05.28.2023 __The first book I ever received as a gift was “Trixie Belden and the Red Trailer Mystery.” Arthur, my Continue reading →

Embracing the Rebel Girl: That’s Who We Are

05.21.2023 __On April 19, 1909, in the village of Tabriz, a a 24-year-old American, Howard Baskerville, a recent Princeton graduate Continue reading →

Concord’s Rebel Girl: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

05.14.2023 __Thomas Wolfe wrote, in a novel posthumously published in 1940, You Can’t Go Home Again, about a author who Continue reading →

Tucker Carlson Was Wrong: That Is How White Men Fight

05.07.2023 __“It was three against one, at least,” Tucker Carlson observed in a text message obtained by the New York Continue reading →

Peyton Place, 2023: Guns. Culture. Cursive.

04.30.2023 __“To a tourist these towns look as peaceful as a postcard picture,” Peyton Place’s author Grace Metalious once said.  Continue reading →

America: Where No One Shall Make Us Afraid

04.23.2023 __As Ramadan was coming to a close this week I found myself thinking of people who have touched my Continue reading →

We Are Each Other’s Other

04.09.2023 __Over 20 years ago a friend returned from London with a gift, a signed copy of the British edition Continue reading →