Ever since I started reading a history of the United States, I’ve been thinking long and hard about how our past has led to our present. I am reassessing many of my assumptions about our core values. This provocative book is challenging me even further. Wilkerson argues that “Just … Read More
Month: January 2021
“Nearly five in ten white families and nine in ten black families endured poverty at some point during the Depression.”
Why was the rate of poverty so high for black families in the 1930s? The version of American history that I learned in high school decades ago never explored this question. In fact, I don’t recall learning much at all about laws in the last century that made things worse … Read More
“The inexplicable is all around us. So is the incomprehensible.”
Are you as astonished as I am by the events in Washington this week? During uncertain times like this, I like to reach for the works of the wise poets who are drawn to things that they find inexplicable because they believe that the process of achieving clarity is a … Read More