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Growing up Poor and Black in the South: Interview With Chattanooga Ruth

They say there are two Americas today. Go back in time and we find more–but not too far back, mind[…]

When I was a substitute teacher in Minneapolis a handful of years ago, I was blown away by the behavior[…]

Two books; two smart, well-educated writers; two entirely different opinions on race. Nicholas Wade is a former science writer for[…]

I had heard that the Black Lives Matter movement was going to hold a protest at the Mall of the[…]

A ruling, a reaction. We’ve seen this before. Violence, fires, businesses destroyed. Besides these obvious consequences, the negative effect of[…]

Obviously, there are many lessons to be taken away from living in a place as different as East Africa. I’ve[…]

Interracial dating is a topic with as much curiosity for some as attraction for others as distaste for yet some[…]

A map created at the University of Virginia provides a layout of everyone in America–yes, everyone, which means something like[…]

Part one was about the hoopla; this post is about the nuts and bolts of the student struggles in North[…]

I walked into the class knowing that it would be a little tougher than other places I taught. I based[…]