Civil Rights Museum: Atlanta, Georgia, August 31, 2018 You sit on stools, as if at a lunch counter. You place your hands splayed on the lunch counter matching them with the drawn hands on the counter. You don headphones. A reassuring voice in your ear, no, not in your ear, in your vitals, insinuating itself […]
Chalk and Rain: Repaving the Path of Discord with Messages of Indelible Hope
The Metro guard told me he’d never seen anything like it in all his years working for DC’s Metro system, people chalking love, togetherness, inclusion messages just off the top of the escalator at the Foggy Bottom Metro stop, the place where the white nationalists will step when they get off the metro, and where […]
Individual Conscience; Collective Action
I wrote this blog in westernmost New York at the Chautauqua Institute. An intellectual and musical center undergirded by social justice, CI played a significant role in both the suffragette and Civil Rights movements. Featuring one issue per week during the summer, CI selects nine issues of national and/or international salience, issues addressed by experts […]
Inadvertent Signals
It is fascinating to me the subtle signs (and oft-times not so subtle) people carry, signals about feelings, principles, beliefs. It may be a bumper sticker, a pin, and here in my case a T-shirt. And we often send those signals with greater volume and visibility when the stakes are high and the pressure on. […]
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