The story continues… Part Two – We begin with the last line from the first installment: It never occurred to me that the concept of passing was simply a way to comply with an oppressor...
I was 18 years old when Michael Brown was murdered by a police officer in Ferguson, MO, in 2014. So was Michael Brown. A month earlier in New York, 44-year-old Eric Garner died from a police chokehold...
America as we know it has disappeared forever. In the wake of COVID-19 and the necessary push to stay home and physically distance, there is an ongoing, and understandable, desire to return to normal....
When I started this piece, it was with the intention of sharing my perspective. As I have been writing some changes have begun to take place. I wanted to share my truth. Striving to be genuine as an author...
You’ve either said it or you have heard it – “Sunday is the most segregated day of the week.” And in the 21st century in the wake of all the civil unrest and racial injustices, there is an all-out...
The more informed people are about a topic the more likely they are to make sound decisions. That is what John Nowlin, a lifelong resident of Montgomery County, always has believed. Nowlin, 77, says the most...
The invasion of America by the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the American landscape in ways never expected. The more than 150,000 deaths throughout America have been devastating for families where a father,...
My view of these two movements (Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter) is shaped by life experience. I grew up in majority Norwegian ethnic farming community in Minnesota. In 1961, I traveled...
For seven days, Henry Turnage circled the monument on the lawn of the Franklin County Courthouse. Walking in circles was a symbolic journey. “That’s a huge representation of what it’s like to be a black...
This summer has been an awakening for me. The deaths of George Floyd and Breanna Taylor and countless others have mobilized an army of activists fighting against systemic racism and police murders in our country....
