I Have No Tolerance For Ignorance and Bigotry

06.28.2020 ________________________________________ President George W. Bush’s Battle of Baghdad, we are told, ended with toppling of the statue of Saddam Continue reading →

Systemic Racism in New Hampshire: The View From Exeter NH

06.21.2020 ________________________________________ It was Halloween, 1990 or 1991, and my daughter – dressed as an angel with aluminum foil wings Continue reading →

Trump’s MAGA Blasphemies: Tulsa, Juneteenth, Jacksonville

06.14.2020 ________________________________________ The AP’s Jonathan Lemire tweeted it best: “Trump blinks.” President Donald Trump had initially planned to hold a Continue reading →

George Floyd. America. Pause. Breathe. Pray. Mourn

06.07.2020 ________________________________________ “If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come Continue reading →

“Please, The Knee In My Neck, I Can’t Breathe, Sir”

05.29.2020 ________________________________________ “My GOD, so much hate from you in your [recent] column. It looks like you hate all white Continue reading →

Today, Do Not Defile the Millions Unchain’d

05.24.2020 ________________________________________ “The company founded by a man named Henry Ford,” President Trump read from a prepared speech this week Continue reading →

Ida B. Wells: Turn the Light of Truth Upon Them

05.17.2020 ________________________________________ On May 4, 2020, Ida B. Wells, born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862, was posthumously awarded Continue reading →

“During Times of War, Hatred Becomes Quite Respectable”

05.10.2020 ________________________________________ “During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable,”> theologian and educator Howard Thurman, an advisor to Martin Luther Continue reading →