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Black mom, white dad, great kids.

Paul R. Nevergold Buffalo, NY My wife and I have been married almost 46 years and have two children and four grandchildren. Life has been...

Ivan Lutcher, my student – 19 – deceased.

11 years ago

Michael Kassin New York, NY Ivan was one young man among many that I taught at St. Anne H.S. in Illinois–40 years ago. But he...

Apartment available. Show up. Not so.

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KE Hauser Rochester, NY This happened 40 years ago but it still hurts when I think about it.

“Black only” programs are racism too.

11 years ago

J Denny Albany, NY Why is it okay for “black only” scholarships, pageants, dating sites, etc.? If “white people” were to do that it would...

My name is Lily, I’m racist

11 years ago

Lily Cohen New York, NY I wasn’t born racist. My parents didn’t raise me to be racist. For the first twelve years of my life...

“I’m no racist, but THEY all…..”

11 years ago

Lyn M. Anton Buffalo, NY Born in 1954, I grew up in a very small, very white town in the North. Obviously, these were turbulent...

No racists here; we are gated.

11 years ago

Peter Goodwin New York, NY We have separated ourselves into separate communities, sometimes with physical gates, often with mental or emotional gates, and so have...

What if I were born black?

11 years ago

Harriett Fargnoli Rockville Centre, NY It’s so hard some days to make sense of anything. Humanity, not color, should define us. I was born in...

YOU’RE RACIST, BUT WON’T ACCEPT IT.

11 years ago

Lauren L. Long Island, NY I notice that there are an overwhelming number of white people who refuse to accept that they have racial biases....

1953: water from colored fountain wasn’t.

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James William Gaynor New York, NY

Mark Zuckerberg wouldn’t have been followed.

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Fatima Faloye Harlem, NY Unconscious racism and white supremacism and/or their denial are the new frontiers in race justice. If we don’t address them, we...