A New Year for Cuba…
January 27, 2022On the second day of Kwanzaa, we light a candle for Kujichagulia – self-determination in English – autodeterminación in Spanish. In this New Year, it…
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Chilling words…
December 27, 2021Checking in on the trials of the three vigilantes who lynched Ahmaud Aubrey and the one who murdered two Black Lives Matter protesters and wounded…
Seeing Ourselves When We Read…Appreciating Others
December 9, 2021Seeing Ourselves When We Read…Appreciating Others We all love to “see” ourselves in whatever we read. We relate, sometimes, to the way characters look or…
Submit/Submission
November 24, 2021I’ve been thinking quite a lot lately about this term: to submit. My oldest association with the word comes from religious contexts: submit to the…
Caste… framing an American dilemma
October 27, 2021Isabel Wilkinson’s latest book, Caste: the Origins of Our Discontents, immerses the reader in what it looks like, what it feels like and where it…
Why Fear Women?
September 28, 2021I read this comment some weeks ago. It sticks in my mind – comes back to the surface often: “Women are the greatest untapped, unused…
La Vida Efímera
September 15, 2021A friend told me a story today that made me pause to write these thoughts: Kevin went to the golf course yesterday – as he…
Awesome Women
August 26, 2021I am in awe of these black women: Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles – women who have stepped forward courageously to act on their own…
Bodies on the line…
August 11, 2021…again, the descendants of slaves – the most disenfranchised people in this democracy find ourselves leading the fight to ensure that ALL Americans have the…
Haiti… Heartbreaker!
July 20, 2021My Father was a Jamaican immigrant who paid a great deal of attention to political matters all over the world. He was especially attentive to…
