It’s Election time in the US, and Voting has begun. Last week, I saw a video of college students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, the nation’s largest historically Black college or university. The students marched en masse after campus removed early voting ballot drop-off boxes. It wasn’t just a protest. They weren’t willing to let […]
Voting Has Begun…
Solidarity, Shared Experience and Abiding Concern for One Another through our Darkest Days
For those of us old enough, we remember “where I was the morning of 9/11?” On the Q train crossing the Manhattan Bridge when some high school students pointed out the window and said, “Look, the World Trade Center is on fire.” Still on the train, the conductor announced over the speakers. We were directed to 42nd Street due to […]
Fear Not 2.0 — Proud and Hopeful, I Bet on Us
Today is the National Shutdown — NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING. STOP FUNDING ICE — to protest the federal government’s misdeeds in Minneapolis. Amidst all the news—or perhaps because of its own internal difficulties—this National Shutdown hasn’t gotten much attention or publicity. I try to keep an eye out for these things, and I only found out when Oscar […]