One of the columnists in one of the newspapers I read wrote today that this Juneteenth felt hollow. To him, it seems that true freedom and equality between black and white people in the US seems farther away than it did in 2021 when Congress made ““Juneteenth National Independence Day” a federal holiday. I totally … More Celebrating Juneteenth with Two James and a Queen
Reading the news these days can be enough to bum me out. Last week it was National Guards and Marines arresting people in LA exercising their rights to free speech and (generally) peaceful protests. This weekend it was two politicians, their spouses, and one golden retriever shot for the “crime” of being a Democratic politician … More The Books of Summer
Note: I apologize for the delay in adding this post. The people installing Google Fiber in our neighborhood accidentally cut our existing cables, so we have been without internet from early Tuesday morning. Earlier in this series I wrote about the dilemma a student might have for writing an essay for the 2019 AP English … More How White Bias Becomes Institutionalized in Literature Classes: Part 3 – Appropriateness
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