Tag: Blacks

Typically, when a teacher sends a student home with a permission slip, they do so in preparation for a class field trip. Maybe the school is planning a fun, educational journey to a local art museum, the zoo, or the aquarium. They may need spending money, a packed lunch, or more chaperones for the d...

Word to Black voters seduced by Trump — he thinks you come from sh — thole nations, is itching to deport you, and believes Black men are wild criminals who deserve the death penalty. This past weekend during a campaign appearance, Trump proclaimed that immigrants, specifically ...

On May 11, 1944, a tragic fire occurred at the Fritchie Building in Louisville, Kentucky. The fire killed 165 people and injured many more, making it one of the deadliest fires in US history. The building housed a wartime social club for African American soldiers stationed in Louisville, and many of...

This weekend I had the opportunity to zoom with my mentoring group of all black boys. Although we were supposed to discuss a book we’ve been reading, I knew it was going to be a conversation about the recent events around race relations in our country. The boys needed the space. And, quite fra...

Her youth wasn’t all that made her stand out from the majority of her colleagues in Westminster. Black is also a working-class, soft-butch lesbian in a place that is not particularly known for attracting or respecting such people. (Currently, 225 of the 650 MPs are women, and there are 63...

I met Nikola in New York. He was a doorman in a building, where a friend of mine lived. I saw him when I visited. Apart from some polite interaction, necessary when you visit someone in a doorman building, we had never really talked. But on a day of May 2018, we had a conversation for the first t...

The Fenway Park Summer Concert Series approaches its 20th season of bringing live music to Fenway Park, home of the iconic Boston Red Sox. As it approaches its 20th season of live music at Fenway Park, a troubling and continuing stain on the City of Boston remains. Remarkably, in those ...