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A Dark Anniversary & Untrue Stories
Last week was the anniversary of the death of Eric Garner. In some ways it feels like a really long time ago and in other ways it feels like yesterday to me. A lot has happened since then, hasn’t it?...
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Quote of the Week
Brought to you by… Langston Hughes . Let America Be America Again . Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself...
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The Problem We All Live With
Weekend Worthy brought to you by… The American Life I’ve had this queued up for a couple weeks now. I’m particularly interested because our boys will be starting a new school in a few weeks and they...
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Jaywalking & Telling Better Stories
Friends, this was in my newsfeed this morning and it made me weep. This happened right outside my hometown in Stockton, California. Reports say that the boy jaywalked as he went to catch his bus and...
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Quote of the Week
Brought to you by… Ta-Nehisi Coates Ok, ok, I know, enough about Ta-Nehisi Coates. Last thing! For now, anyway. This is one of the passages from Between the World & Me that we discussed at the...
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The Opposite of Poverty isn’t Wealth
I recently started reading Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. I was about 1/3 of the way through it when I realized that I kinda sorta already knew the ending. Somehow, somewhere I read the story of...
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Quote of the Week
Brought to you by… Glennon Doyle Melton Yesterday I spent some time in Gryffin’s First Grade classroom helping with a project. Walking into the school, though, I felt the urge to keep my head down and...
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Quote of the Week
Brought to you by… Ta-Nehisi Coates (again, I know) This Fall has been the season for lectures. So far I’ve heard Elizabeth Gilbert, Dr. Willie James Jennings and, as of last Thursday, Ta-Nehisi...
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Quote of the Week
Brought to you by… Shaun King (and Gryffin!) Today I’m home with the boys and we’re watching The Lion King as I type. I’m watching-notwatching because I sat through it last week with Gryffin when he...
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Quote of the Week — #LaquanMcDonald
Brought to you by… John Stothers I watched the video yesterday of the murder of Laquan McDonald. I wasn’t sure if I should watch it. Viewer discretion was advised and I hesitated. I don’t watch the...
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James Baldwin & the Illusion of Whiteness
I’ve been reading some James Baldwin this week and I’ve been turning over certain parts of his essay called “On Being White… And Other Lies” in my head, struck by how apropos it remains, all these...
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There’s Been No Funeral Dirge
The very first time I met my husband was just before Spring Break my sophomore year in college. We had both signed up to spend the week at the Harambee Center in Pasadena where we would be involved in...
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Because Our Cause Was Just
Quote of the Week I read this interview with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr this morning. This section in particular made me wonder if Black Lives Matter activists feel the same way or if they’ve just...
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Trump: the White Man’s Last Gasp
Quote of the Week I’ve been processing the rise of Donald Trump along with everyone else and at first felt incredulity. Then surprise. Then disbelief. And now actual fear. This piece by Christena...
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This past weekend we were camping. Out of cell range, up in the woods, away-from-it-all camping. And on July 3rd, just after the sun started to sink low behind the mountain, some shots rang out up...
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13th
I watched 13th a couple weeks ago and in the words of the creator/director of the documentary, Ava DuVernay, I think the power of the film lies in seeing the information presented all together. “…I...
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Our community group this year will be listening to various podcasts and focusing on the meditation and reflection sparked by those podcasts. If you’d like to follow along with us, you can check out my...
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