Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance; brilliant. Alas, that is not an shared view. My response to those who emphasized this was the worst Super
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The Girl in the Middle: WWII, Boston Busing and What You Fight For
It started with this one, all the emotions. The program was: Lens of Change: The Garrity Decision in Focus, Busing at 50. Featured were photos
The February Thing: A Family Birthday and History
There was a moment when my mother, pregnant with me, hears of the 1958 world’s fair human zoo of an African village populated with Congolese.
Subject to Interpretation: Civil War, Democracy and Rights
People had ideas about my Halloween costume, a newspaper, a magazine, a book. While the ideas varied slightly, all my costume interpretations all fell under
This Week in Brain Teasers: The Problem of 45%
I have truly struggled that in spite of lies, apparent cognitive decline and nonsensical policy statements, Donald J Trump still remains solidly over 45% in
The Edge of 17: One City, Two Teenagers, 3 Murders
On August 25, 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old, shot and killed two men and wounded another in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In 2018, Chrystul Kizer, at age
Balancing on Unstable Surfaces 