Tag: Voices Against the Hard Rain of Racism

Photo by Paul Coates Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist and author of two memoirs and several...

It’s getting harder for people in the United States to turn away from the sexism, racism, and inequality that is woven into the fabric of society. Continue Reading Against Hierarchy

When Travis and Dolapo reached out to me, it encouraged me to do more than just survive. Continue Reading We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest

Just as we all have multiple identities, we all occupy overlapping circles of privilege that are frequently invisible to the fortunate even as they are painfully obvious to the marginalized. Continue Reading American Privilege

too hard they say too scary they say too painful they say yes I say Continue Reading Drumming to the River

Accountability must also be communal if we are to remake and re-envision a society that is more prone to commodify and criminalize than it is to nurture and sustain. Continue Reading Holding Our Beloved Communities Accountable

Embracing connected ways of addressing worldview difference seems, in fact, to be our only hope out of the trap of the past. Continue Reading “Crossing the Empathy Bridge”

You are me and I am you. When one person cannot breathe, no one can breathe. Continue Reading Beneath the Sugar Maple

In this section we want to lift up Black voices but also ask, “How do people who are not Black view our changing world?” Continue Reading Voices Against the Hard Rain of Racism