Mom, talk about your “black firsts.”
Janice Lowe New York City, NY My mother, Dr. Willa Lowe was one of the first black English teachers in several high schools in New...
First black family on our block!
Tawana Littlejohn Washington, DC We were welcomed with mostly open arms, the year was 1967.
See my humanity first, race second.
Sylvia Stancil, Wayne State, MI While I will concede that these mere six words may represent an oversimplification to addressing extremely complex issues, recognizing the...
Please, Listen to my story first!
Clemen W. DSM, IA Many people look at me and/or hear my accent and immediately create a full story about me in their minds. They...
Hard to be the first on
Secundra Beasley, Submitted via Twitter: @letbeasley #TheRaceCardProject #ShiningALight
First I am Black, not Female
Alma Scott-Buczak, Cliffside Park, NJ. I was in the first class of women to attend Lafayette College in Easton PA. It was also the first...
You people weren’t the first Americans
Ilene Santoyo, Hollywood, CA. White people always think that they were the first people in America those whom are racist are always say to Mexicans,...
Blacks are always…but you’re Okay!
Phyllis Batson Chicago, IL It’s tiresome for folks who are, even in this day and age, ‘first’ or ‘only’. I would so much rather be...
Dad said, “You were here first.”
Joan Fumetti Windsor Heights, IA Traveling from our white Iowa world through the South in 1961 we stopped at a roadside food establishment. Dad went...
