This is my family a couple of years ago, and here is a more recent photo:   Recently, in the car on the way to the camping trip pictured above, a discussion came up about the time my son was asked to open his backpack in our local grocery store. My son has a tendency […]

I’m not going to even bother commenting on the Council for Great City Schools’ recent report on black males in urban schools when Renee Moore and Jose Vilson have done such a masterful job at this. Sorry, Jose, it’s ladies first, as Ms. Moore had her article up first: TeachMoore: News To Some; Blues To […]

After the Democratic Convention, there were a lot of conversations on Plurk about Obama. One of the saddest was a thread from Lisa Parisi, about her conversation at a local bowling alley with a Democrat who said they would never vote for Obama because he is black. She was shocked, but many of us who […]