The Atlantic: The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying. The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others. Adam Serwer Staff writer at The Atlantic MAY 8, 2020 […]The underlying assumptions of white innocence and black guilt are all part…
Read More Coronavirus Was an EmergencyI enjoy concerts and Broadway plays and musicals. In these days of Covid 19, we aren’t able to go to see live events. Here are 2 recommendations: One World Together at Home Join Global Citizen, the World Health Organization, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Lizzo, and many more artists and healthcare experts as we raise…
Read More One World Together at HomeWhen I spoke at Faith Church earlier this year about the new normal, I had no idea that what the new normal looked like then would morph into what it looks like now. None. Nada. I saw the new normal as a political problem – foolish me. My flights of fancy, impacted by 8 years…
Read More The NEW New NormalGrace Helen Whitener Becomes 1st Black Gay Disabled Immigrant Justice to Serve on Washington State Supreme Court Washington Governor Jay Inslee appointed Judge Grace Helen Whitener to the Washington State Supreme Court this April. Whitener, who is originally from Trinidad, gay, and has a disability, also became Washington’s first black immigrant state justice. To quote her:…
Read More Whitener is 1st Black Gay Disabled Immigrant JusticeWEDNESDAY, April 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) — You’re in lockdown, yet you still have to go grocery shopping, but how do you stay safe and avoid catching the coronavirus? The American Medical Association has some timely tips. Read them here.
Read More Tips for Safe Grocery ShoppingAysha Khan April 17, 2020 (RNS) — As the coronavirus outbreak takes a disproportionately deadly toll on seniors and African Americans, a new oral history initiative aims to train black Muslim youth to document their elderly community members’ stories. The Wisdom of the Elders Project is a “long-overdue” effort to capture black Muslim seniors’ “past, present and…
Read More Oral history project preserves stories of black Muslim seniors amid pandemicWorldwide Concert for Our Culture: Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2020 Virtual Gala I watched the most interesting concert. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis with special performances by: Baqir Abbas | Brussels Jazz Orchestra | Cécile McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner | Chano Dominguez | Chucho Valdés | Dianne Reeves | Hamilton de Holanda | Igor Butman |…
Read More Jazz at Lincoln CenterIn ‘The Last Dance,’ Michael Jordan and the Bulls Still Dominate ESPN’s new 10-part documentary doesn’t ask Big Questions. But it does go big on a team whose personalities and feats warrant just this sort of excess. Michael Jordan’s brilliance on the court rendered him impervious to overstatement. The new 10-part ESPN documentary “The Last…
Read More The Last DanceRead more about women’s history here. Do You Know Claudete Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald and Mary Louise Smith? Read more about these true pioneers here. Colvin’s stand was part of a long history of African-American resistance, as acts of resistance on segregated transportation had been going on for more than century. Frederick Douglass was kicked out of…
Read More Women’s History / American HistoryI have type 2 diabetes and am always looking for ways to lower my blood glucose numbers. My problem is that I love, love, love sweets. While I don’t have to have bread or pasta or potatoes, my addiction to pie, cake, ice cream, chocolate anything, is and has been a lifelong problem. Right now…
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