I have been in a funk since the day after last year’s presidential election. About a month before the voting, I began to feel as though Donald Trump would...
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02 February 2017
I have been in a funk since the day after last year’s presidential election. About a month before the voting, I began to feel as though Donald Trump would...
22 January 2017
I constantly remind the students in my African American history classes that if you are poor and white in America, especially if you are rural or southern,...
16 January 2017
Most Americans never learned that there was slavery in the northern United States. Half of all slave voyages docked in tiny Rhode Island, and...
23 July 2016
Whenever I think of Richard Nixon, a wave of pity washes over me. Has there ever been a mainstream politician in America who was so hated, so reviled, so...
28 May 2016
I have been hoisted on my own petard. For decades now, I have assiduously ignored ninety-nine percent of all the rap music–an oxymoron if ever...