I’m not mad, I’m just exhausted.
Julian Smith, East Orange, NJ. When I hear a story about a black person that posed no threat being killed by a white police officer...
How did you get a boy?
Claire Wallick Moy, Maplewood, NJ. This is what I was asked in 1998 when I moved to NJ. Our 3 children look much more like...
I feel like I’ve been sorted.
Jaclyn Huelbig, Edison, NJ. I’m white. When I was a child, I lived in a city (the type that hipsters remain uninterested in!) and I...
Everyone’s life is worth living.
Samantha Cleary, Bloomfield, NJ All lives can’t matter until Black Lives Matter! We all need to stay strong and support everyone we especially when we...
“Be your own kind of beautiful”
Sabrina Macchia, Bloomfield, NJ We may all have different backgrounds, but we are truly beautiful!
Strength intelligence spice loyalty nobility earth
Erika Grisselle Morales Montalvo, Newark, NJ I was born in Puerto Rico. I grew up learning that a Puerto Rican is blend of three: white...
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...
I’d be blinded by their racism.
Isa Mejia, Montclair, NJ Their-meaning institutionalized racism that stops any sort of justice to be made. Allowing cops, white people, and anyone with that sort...
My skin color doesn’t define me
Katie Kerrigan, The University of New Hampshire, Parsippany, NJ Recently I got called out on my white privilege. I acknowledge that I was born with...
Mind wide, self-education comes free
Edward Darden Washington, DC Every American black person, who succeeds is and was self-educated to a great extent, at least in the beginning. When children...
Why didn’t we talk about this?
Madison Martin, Ewing, NJ. Growing up in a predominantly white town, race was not a topic of much discussion in the classroom. My parents were...
