Five More Things I Want to Tell My White Friends
In June 2020, I wrote an essay, my first here, called Five Things I Want To Tell My White Friends.
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A Reading Challenge — Who’s In?
Most writers are desperately hungry for compliments about their work, so I was all ears when my best friend started
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Race Matters: When a Child You Love Is Called a Racial Slur
When my goddaughter was recently called the N-word at school – by a fellow third grader — I was heartbroken
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Race Matters: On Feeling ‘Black Enough’
A few years back, a white colleague quipped: “Well, you’re not really Black, Christine.” It was one of those times
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Learning to Swim at Age 37
I’m learning to swim for the first time at 37. I never learned when I was little. Swimming was mandatory
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Race Matters: Black Families Raising White Kids
When I was 14, my parents announced that I was getting a little brother or sister, and my first thought
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