Liz Petry, author of “At Home Inside: A Daughter’s Tribute to Ann Petry”
http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1134 and
“Can Anything Beat White? A Black Family’s Letters” www.lizpetry.com
comments on her blog http://lizr128.wordpress.com/
Barbara Beckwith has done a brave and wonderful thing in writing What Was I Thinking?: Reflecting on Everyday Racism. I’ve long believed that no one in the United States is without racism. [...]
People of Color have spoken out against white privilege and racism for two centuries. It’s time for white people to listen and to act
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy [...]
Join me in writing about your experiences growing up, with a focus on your awareness (or not) of race, racism, and white privilege.
Howard Zinn − historian, activist, and a member of the National Writers Union and the Boston Chapter for almost 20 years died on January 27, 2010. But his life and writing will inspire grassroots activists for many future generations.
Howard Zinn died Wednesday, January 26, 2010.
When I think about why Zinn is so important to me, I think of how he often describes his own experience, his own complicity, his own gradual understanding of “what’s going on” (eg as WWII Air Force bomber, bombing people he couldn’t see, including the first napalm drops ever [...]
Early one Winter morning, needing money for a trip out of town, I drove to the nearest bank outlet. I used my card to get into the ATM area, grabbed my cash and rushed out, then realized that I’d failed to retrieve my card.
The Soiling of Old Glory: The Story of a Photograph That Shocked America, by Louis P. Masur (Bloomsbury Press, 2008) focuses on Boston Herald freelance photographer’s photos of a Black passerby, attorney Ted Landsmark, being attacked by anti-busing protesters,
