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The Highest Calling: Being a Dad Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: Yesterday was Father's Day. As a favor to a dear friend, I did a speaking event on Saturday night away from home, and planned on returning very early in the morning for Sunday and Father's Day. ...
Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: On the morning of Saturday, March 25, 1911 more than 600 employees, mostly immigrant women, reported for work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. On the morning of Sat ...
How I've Learned to Talk About Race Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: I confess: I used to cringe every time I heard the "R" word. I confess: I used to cringe every time I heard the "R" word. Growing up in suburban Atlanta, this wh ...
Postcolonialism Comes Home Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: For most of us, the term<a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/colonialism/" target="_blank"> "colonialism" </a>conjures images of palm trees, pith helmets, and mosquito nets ...
The Hard Work of Racial Reconciliation Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: Several years ago, I visited a slave castle along the coast of Ghana, West Africa. This castle was one of the primary centers for shipping slaves from Africa to the New World. Several ...
What Is Happening Is Bigger Than Emergent Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: [<a href="../tag/emergent-and-race/">Read more of this blog conversation</a> in response to the <em>Sojourners </em>article "<a href="http://www.sojo.net/index.cf ...