Tag: Thanksgiving

As a white mother who is deeply concerned about the future we are creating for our children, I am both terrified by and hopeful about the complex and dangerous times we are navigating. This is the first year of my life that I will not gather with family members or friends for a Thanksgiving dinner. ...

I’ve asked myself: don’t folks know that this tradition was born out of colonialism, imperialism, and mass genocide? Is it really worth putting yourself, your family, and Americans at risk for a deadly virus? But, as I point out these facts — facts that we are all now ful...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because it is a secular holiday that all Americans can celebrate regardless of our ethnic background. This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for my Native American forebears, the First People in the Americas, crossing from Asia across the Bering Strait 15,000 years...

Let me first introduce you to Yarys Lopez. With Thanksgiving approaching in these grim-feeling times, her story really helped me reflect on gratitude — and the obligations that gratitude compels. I hope it will do the same for you. Yarys was just 11 years old when a neighbor tried to b...