I can’t think of a better way to bring in 2018 than to learn more about the history of the people who built the Capitol Building, the White House, the U.S. economy, and the world economy, while reflecting upon unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, collective economics, purpose, creativity, and faith with loved ones.
Race & Racism
Acknowledging the work of earlier activists also means acknowledging that we have been here many times before, and, despite these efforts, we have yet to effectively extinguish sexual harassment/violence in our culture.
I trusted the polls because I believed that men on the Left were with us in this struggle, but in the end, too many left us to vote for a racist, sexist, xenophobic, hyper-masculine demagogue. This was not a victory on the Right, but a failure of the Left.
Clinton won the first debate last night, according to scientific polls, focus groups, and my Grandma Lois. Trump should have won…
Many of my progressive friends are panicking about the possibility of Donald Trump winning the White House. This post lays…
It’s two days before Christmas, and many friends and family members are pulling their hair out with last-minute shopping as they brave the malls…
Last summer, I broke up a fight between two men near my Los Angeles home, and last night I stood…
Tower Heist (2011) the new movie starring Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy, is the latest installment in blatantly racist movie-making. It is embarassing for Hollywood and its “critics” to continue to be so ignorant.
A new study from the Pew Research Center reports staggering gaps in median wealth–a person’s accumulated assets minus her debt–between…
There is no way to do justice to “the people” of New Orleans in a blog post, a book, or even a thousand books, and that is not my goal here. Instead, I will introduce a few of the people I have come to love while living and working part of each year in New Orleans since Katrina.