Bread and Roses

We signed LB up.  She is officially a 6%er having gotten into her new school by lottery. It's a small community charter dual language sc...

"Did you know that sometimes people are mean to other people just because those people have brown skin?" "I have light s...

My facebook feed has been full of two streams: anxious anticipation of the Supreme Court's hearing of a challenge to state bans on gay m...

For the past little while, academics have been getting snarky about trigger warnings.  Exhibit A is Laurie Essig's piece in The Chronic...

May 1 came and went here with a lot of labor, but not a lot of celebration.  But I didn't come here to talk about my May Day, I came ...

Most people trace the beginnings of African America children's literature to the activism and art of the Civil Rights Movement.  Books l...

[Following up on my previous post here , with more obscure questions.] In 1959, Alabama sought to ban The Rabbits' Wedding from public...

Today's New York Times brought two editorial about the dearth of children's books about people of color,  "Where are the Peopl...

For me, the clear answer is "Oh fuck no!"  I need to come up with a response for the younger set.  I've been struggling ...

There's one word I heard a lot this week that I will not type for fear that it has some Voldemort-type properties.  There was also a...

I'm wishing I was in D.C. for all the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington festivities, although I don't know if I would have...

I read this post, " When do we teach our kids about hate ," over at VillageQ with interest.  Historical hate is pretty much my bre...

After my recent posts about white kids and race, LB decided to give me some additional content. Imagine the scene: two white ladies relaxi...

Our house, this morning: M: "Yeah, he's a white man." B: "Really? He's a white man." M: Basically, they'...

The death of Trayvon Martin has provoked a lot of public conversation about the lessons that Black parents teach their children.  Lessons ab...

When I got my hair done today, the salon was abuzz...with discussion of the murder charges against Pats player Aaron Hernandez. Everyone e...

Like everyone else I was horrified and freaked out and saddened by the bombing at the Boston Marathon.  I'm also a bit mystified by the ...

In 2008, I spent election eve nervous and excited.  Even if I didn't like Obama, he would be the best choice for a person in my situatio...

The heat broke. And a baby watched the rain with glee.  The adults are busy trying to organize ourselves for the big move.  Baltimore ha...

I'll just say in advance that this post may be more unfocused than usual.  I've become interested in straight African American attit...