New Orleans It’s a wild couple of days when you combine holidays, family visits and glad tidings, and critical organizational events all in a power-packed couple of days, but that’s been life in our fastlane over the end of the month. Show me someone who says they like moving, and I will introduce you to a …
Category: Personal Writings
A Diversity Garden Comes to Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans
New Orleans Fifty years ago, the Class of 1966 entered Benjamin Franklin High School in New Orleans in the fall of 1963, not unlike tens of thousands of others entering their public high schools in cities and towns all over the United States, all of whom hoped undoubtedly they were special in some personal way, …
Remembering Injustice in Indian Country
Rock Creek While in the trailer last week, I had finished the recent volume by Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, then by happenstance “my friends at BCGEU” in Canada had given me a copy of the recently published The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account …