What a white boy taught this black woman about resistance — Our homeschool coop tried a version of the blue eyes/brown eyes exercise in the 6- to 10-year-olds’ history class. I knew it would be interesting, so I settled in to watch, not guessing how much I would learn. The two parent teachers had cookies, but only the brown-eyed children were…

A response to my brother, who did not vote and is not afraid — November 8, 2016 On election day, I was driving to my mother’s house to offer and to receive moral support on an anxiety-ridden day. My youngest daughter asked me to turn on a Quran CD. My eldest daughter groaned as I turned it on. As we pulled up to a traffic light, we…

Seeing the Civil Rights Movement through the Eyes of Today’s Youth — Last week I led a history lesson about the “Greensboro four” for a group of homeschooling students. …