On the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, there’s a lot of interesting writing about its legacy, not to mention awesome grave posts about suffragists. First, while it’s always a bit t
Clearly the problem in the discussion about race and education on this blog is my lack of understanding for white parents. Angry White parents gripping picket signs. People making death threats and a
One thing we are now seeing is that as liberal institutions work to respect the anti-racist historical interpretations now gaining steam, they are purging association with their founders, who mostly w
Good Rebecca Nagle piece at the always valuable High Country News on racism within the Cherokee Nation. On a warm Saturday morning this June, a crane pulled up to the courthouse square in downtown Tah
Leave it to rich white people to double down on privilege in education! Fed up with remote education, parents who can pay have a new plan for fall: import teachers to their homes. This goes beyond tut
To build on the earlier post, perhaps no intellectual has more to say about the present moment than James Baldwin. Raoul Peck, who directed I Am Not Your Negro: Baldwin’s words are forceful and radi
One of the biggest problems we face in our national conversation about race has been front and center of late. It’s that we speak of it as almost an exclusively black-white relationship, which i
In our national discussion of racism we are now having, at least some whites are finally waking up more to the reality that racism isn’t this thing that other people are. It’s a constant c