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July 2018

July 18, 2018

Party in the USA

The day is hot and musty but everyone is celebrating. After all, everyone can enjoy...

July 09, 2018

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Our son Eric was four years old. My husband George, after teaching all day at...

January 2018

January 15, 2018

Race Relations: A Personal History

It is Martin Luther King Day, and I muse about how my relation to African-Americans...

August 2017

August 17, 2017

Life, Death, Bread, Host

Guest Post by Laura Bramon This post originally appeared at "Good Letters" on August 18,...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part 2

By Jeffrey Overstreet. Maybe it was instinct that sent me back to relive the 1924...

October 2016

October 05, 2016

The Art of Steve Prince

This post originally appeared as web-exclusive content in Image issue 78. Steve Prince, a New...

October 04, 2016

Thank You, Black Southern Belles

In the twenty-plus years since the Internet became a feature of our lives, there have...

August 2016

August 30, 2016

Margo Jefferson’s Negroland

In her photo on the jacket flap of Negroland: A Memoir, Margo Jefferson looks to...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

Eden at the Indy 500

I managed to live in Indiana for forty years before visiting the Indianapolis 500. A...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Sonia Sanchez Made Me a Jewish Poet; Rhonda Magee Helped Make Me Whole

Black. Muslim. American. Woman. Poet. The languages she spoke. The ground on which she stood,...

July 2015

July 07, 2015

Morning Prayer and The New York Times

Summer morning routine: a cup of Awake tea, the Opinion page of The New York...

June 2015

June 12, 2015

Sunday Morning at Wegmans, Prince George’s County, Maryland

It is the Feast of Pentecost on the Eastern Orthodox calendar, the annual commemoration of...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

Self-Hating Jew: A Love Story, Part 1

In response to “Never Again: Netanyahu’s Holocaust Cliché,” a recent post of mine on Good...

April 2015

April 01, 2015

Never Again: Netanyahu’s Holocaust Cliché

In the air, on the air, tunneling through cables, conquering newsrooms, occupying the mouths of...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

The Crucifix’s Motley Crew

Archibald Motley’s most famous paintings jump and jive, then they wail. You might have seen...

January 20, 2015

The Birmingham Project

I was looking into the eyes of a black girl around thirteen years old. She...

January 16, 2015

It’s Time to Derail the Gravy Train

Earlier this week we saw yet again what happens when thousands of the unemployed, living...

January 05, 2015

#BlackLivesMatter to Poets

Poets are rising to the cause, hands raised ("Don't shoot!") but hands also holding pencils...

December 2014

December 16, 2014

The Regrettably Pretty Shoes: A St. Louis Story

Guest post by Linda Wendling I love St. Louis. I love Ferguson. My whole family...

June 2014

June 13, 2014

Can We Bridge the Racial Divide?

Recently, after I’d just watched the documentary about food deserts called A Place at the...

May 2014

May 27, 2014

Mystery and (Southern) Manners

It’s a chicken-and-egg kind of question I get all the time, but I don’t think...

January 2014

January 21, 2014

My Personal History of U.S. Race Relations

On Martin Luther King Day, I mused about how my relation to African-Americans has been...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

The March on Washington: A Personal Anniversary

Guest Post By Christine A. Scheller “Many of our white brothers…have come to realize...

August 08, 2013

Black Boy, 2013

One of my boys is reading Richard Wright’s Black Boy for his English class this...

March 2013

March 25, 2013

The New Improved Golden Rule

Our neighbor Jack is a retired widower. He goes to a mainline Baptist church. It’s...

February 2013

February 24, 2013

Living in a Border State

I spent elementary school in a Mexican neighborhood in Austin, Texas. I attended birthday parties...