During the one year I attended Indiana Institute of Technology, I made some friends who were Christian (the faith that I profess to belong to). One Sunday morning they invited me to walk to church with them. I paid no attention to the fact that they my friends escorting me were all African-American until we arrived at the church.

They Welcomed Me In Too

Two days after the Charleston racist slaughter, I made my way to the Greater Morris Tabernacle Baptist Church in Cordele, Ga.

The trip had been planned for a few days. Silas Vance had called me on Monday to tell me that the funeral for his wife of 49 years…

The Confederate Flag vs Sen. Pinckney's empty chair

The confederate flag is facing a vote. Governor Haley made a call for this vote* in her press conference on the 22nd, piling onto the call from the Mayor of Charleston and several other members of the SC senate. There was a chance that a…

Why Charleston’s Church Massacre Is An Act Of Terrorism

By Lily Workneh

I took a moment of silence last night.

A long moment… as I struggled to sort through my emotions while I painfully watched breaking news broadcast reports that…

on the First Amendment.

Like many of you, I’ve been grappling all day with what occurred in South Carolina. As a general rule, I try not to draw too many conclusions from what I read/see in/on the news, only because I’m well aware of how “processed” such information is before I am its recipient. I’m also…

When my daughter was five, about 10 years ago, she joined a soccer team in the very white liberal enclave of Noe Valley in San Francisco. The team was called The Rebels. I thought nothing of it until I became the head coach a year later. All of a sudden something about the name rubbed me the wrong way and I changed it to The Bull Dogs. I actually…