Year: 2008
REPOST: I have a few (3) more t-shirts available
Calling a few adventurous anti-racists… I am conducting an experiment, and I need the help of ten people of various ethnic backgrounds who are willing to participate. The experiment will simply… Read more
How Could You Not Know This?
Did you know there was a white woman who was murdered by the Klan because of her involvement in the American Civil Rights Movement? Did you know she was a… Read more
I Don’t Have a Racist Bone in My Body
I was returning home to Los Angeles on a flight from Atlanta, where I’d spent a couple of days at a writer’s conference. Weary from a weekend filled with late… Read more
For Us, By Us
LUCRETIA AND JAMES MOTT ARE MY HEROES! Imagine you lived during a time when the clothes you wore were produced by slave labor. Oh… wait… that’s right… if you’re… Read more
“People of color…were tired of holding our hands.”
I saw the film Traces of the Trade and was impressed most by its courage and its frankness. It is definitely interesting to watch the transformation of the family members as they begin to realize exactly… Read more

James Breeden’s “Negro Woman”
On February 28, 1825, a white Tennessee farmer appeared before the Hawkins County Court with his black slave and two children he sired with her, with the intention of petitioning… Read more