Colonial legacies, the federal government, and the moral high ground.

The past is inescapable. We all know the origins of what we today refer to as the federal government. Starting with the annexation of Lagos in 1861, the British, through military and other coercive means…

Are we losing WWIII before we even realize it started?

Putin’s cyber attack on Hillary’s servers was…

For Aleppo

I imagined the last thing I ever said
would be sage advice
to my grandchildren
or
a Blessing
or
something flippant or funny or sweet
a very long time from now,
and the air would smell like oranges,
and I imagined I would be very old, maybe,
and fat and full of stories,
and that my husband would have loved my…

The Face of the Past

There is nothing that confronts us with the reality of the past as directly as the human faces preserved for us in…

Diversity and racism are polar opposites.

Diversity is the manifestation of inclusion.

Racism is the manifestation of exclusion.

You literally could not be more wrong.

How? Log onto a computer with Internet access, open any web browser, navigate to Google, type in “Jim Crow”, and read the Wikipedia article. Then, and I know this will probably trigger your allergy, try talking to any…

It has everything to do with the conversation, actually. Jim Crow is the living, breathing embodiment of anti-diversity legislation, and a good start would be to understand it, as it still exists in the institutions and…