Resegregation: The agenda of the Project 2025-Trump regime couldn’t be clearer
I don’t need to lecture you, dear reader, I need only hand you the keys that will clarify what you already, in your perceptive wisdom, suspect.In the last election, voters cast their ballots for a...
View ArticleLow-Hanging Fruit: a neglected area where making America great for real is...
UPDATE: Monday, Sep 29, 2025 · 4:08:57 PM +00:00·xaxnarOkay, just to make clear since I’ve apparently confused people, I am looking for feedback on ways to make America great for real. The goals I...
View ArticleIn 1933 a German Minister Warned about Misleaders like Donald Trump
As Donald Trump implements legally questionable attacks on American universities and cities, on undocumented immigrants, native-born children whose parents were not documented, and diversity programs,...
View ArticleThe Most Segregated City in the United States: A Microcosm of Black Life
What Milwaukee’s data, divisions, and daily realities tell us about race, resilience, and inequality across the United States.At first glance, this essay might sound eerily familiar. It reflects many...
View ArticleThe Foundation from the Background: What Happens When Black America Isn’t the...
Foundation Work: When the Background Carries the BuildingWe’re living in a time when backlash is policy — where attacking what’s left of affirmative action, critical race theory, and diversity, equity,...
View ArticleThe School Investment That Pays Everyone Back
Spend a week in a town with a great public school and you’ll find more than just kids finishing their homework. You see Main Street bustling, neighbors talking at Friday night games, and families...
View ArticleHoward Thurman and the Quest for Community: Social Action/Compassion/Justice...
As I consider the daily outrages coming from the Trump administration, especially the devastation it is doing to those who have, in Howard Thurman’s words, their “backs against the wall,” it’s hard...
View ArticleThe Immigrant Myth Is Crumbling
Peeling Back the Onion of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric: How One Post Reveals the Crumbling Logic of the MAGA RightA meme has been making the rounds lately on social media — the kind of thing that tries to...
View ArticleHow the World Learned to See Blackness — Scientific Racism and Its Enduring...
Author’s Note:This is a long read (30 — 60 minutes)—a deep dive into how scientific racism shaped the world’s view of Blackness. This diary is meant for research, as well as the casual learner. First...
View ArticleFor the Ones Who Still Don’t Know: I’m Obsessed with Remembering
I recently read Francesca Dallaglio’s essay, “The World Has Yet to Fully Grasp How The U.S. Treats Black People,” and it stopped me dead in my tracks. Dallaglio writes candidly about her own shock, as...
View ArticleThe Art of Critical Thinking—and the Fear Behind the Voice
Critical thinking is an art.It’s more than just analysis or skepticism—it’s the ability to step outside yourself, to see the angles, and to question the familiar. Good writing is the same. It’s...
View ArticleUS Immigration Info. Rules, Legal, Links, Videos, Temporary Worker Visas.
Google Language Translator-Free Translation Tool. Translates Text, Documents, Websites, Images. Many Languages---—GeoAlert A Smart Phone App. Enables users to send and receive geo-located alerts. In...
View ArticleDesigned by Man, For Men: How Religious Power Structures Reinforce Patriarchy
“When God is male, the male is God.”—Mary Daly, Beyond God the FatherFor centuries, religion has served as a guiding force for billions. But the structures behind most of the world’s major religions...
View ArticleWhite Privilege Doctrine Is Still White Privilege Doctrine
Welcome to the new non-believers.I hadn’t thought of it that way before—but now I can’t unsee it: white privilege doctrine is white privilege doctrine is white privilege doctrine. It doesn’t matter how...
View ArticleNew documentary AMERICAN AGITATORS sheds light on Cesar Chavez & Dolores...
Organizers, history buffs, people who appreciate democracy and social justice: Have you heard (yet) of Fred Ross Sr.?"A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire"—...
View ArticleThe Illusion of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Trump and his allies aren’t just attacking DEI—they’re proving it was never real protection in the first place. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion were not pillars of democracy; they were concessions,...
View ArticleThe Illusion of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
When Trump and his allies attack Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), they aren’t just rolling back progress—they’re exposing how fragile and performative these so-called protections were all along....
View ArticleChristianity is in a political crisis and must change toward God, which is to...
Our image of God creates our image of ourselves.Our image of God creates us, even if we don’t believe in God. For theists, a punishing God creates punishing people, just as a merciful God creates...
View ArticleTV Review: Louder: The Soundtrack Of Change
The other evening I watched the documentary Louder: The Soundtrack of Change, which is available on HBO’s streaming platform, Max.Produced and narrated by Stacey Abrams and Selena Gomez, the film...
View ArticleSix Years Ago, an American Filmmaker "Disappeared" while on set with a...
"Ultimately, there are no reasonable explanations for the disappearance of Terrence Woods – other than foul play."[An earlier version of this article appeared on Medium.com on September 23, 2022.]Today...
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