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Last week, many of us were surprised to learn that the Democrats were still working behind the scenes to make progress on legislation to curb climate change and reduce prescription drug prices....
Last week I wrote about the mass shooting in Buffalo where 13 people were shot and 10 died while they were grocery shopping. My grief was raw. I was just starting to feel like I could breathe,...
The U.S. was the site of another mass shooting on Saturday. Ten people are dead and another three are injured. Eleven of those shot were Black. The shooter is an 18-year-old white man who drove...
Colorism is treating people within a race or ethnic group differently based on the color of their skin. The person with the bias can be part of the same group or not. It’s often rooted in...
In case you haven’t seen social media or the news or been connected to the internet for the last week, I’m posting the videos of The Slap as seen in America and other countries. I...
It’s common knowledge for Black folks and other people of color that we have to be twice as good to get half as much. And if you’re a woman, misogynoir means you have to be more than...
I’m interrupting my series on blame, shame, and guilt to talk about racism in the media. Since Russia has invaded Ukraine, racism from the news media has been on display and people on social...
What does it mean to undo the work? How do we undo what we’ve learned (and lived) about race, privilege, and equality? Undoing the work is both the overall theme of antiracism and one step in...
In this new blog space, we’ll be undoing what we’ve learned (and lived) about race, privilege, and equality. We’ll undo what we think we know about power (our own and...