This presidential election: Why I don’t care

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I don’t care who will win the upcoming presidential election. I really don’t. Oh. I will vote. I believe in voting. Good men and women have suffered and died for my right to vote, and I will forever be indebted to them. It is for them that I vote. It is for the men and [...]

Murder repeats itself

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This weekend marks the anniversary of the murder of Karly Sheehan. Had she not been killed by her mother’s boyfriend, Karly Sheehan would be celebrating the end of yet another year of elementary school. It’s easy to imagine Karly lugging around a backpack, chatting with classmates about her summer plans, which surely would include yet [...]

Then and Now

photo by Shelby Zacharias

I grew up during a time and place where the only blacks in the schools were those working in the cafeteria. Or in the bathrooms. Janitors. Cooks. Those were the jobs available to blacks in those days. I grew up in a time or place when parents in the burbs were afraid to send tow-headed [...]