President Donald Trump’s speech Saturday night in Tulsa, Okla., was a toxic stream of consciousness that ignored a great opportunity to speak words of healing and unity to a divided […]
Opinion
Advice from 101-year-old historian
These last months have been a stressful and difficult time in the history of our country. I say that with some experience behind me. I’m 101 years old. I was […]
Adopt a Cat Month purr-fect time to find furry friend
June is Adopt a Cat Month and therefore the purr-fect time to find a four-legged friend. Pet ownership has been found to have health benefits. The Center for Disease Control […]
Aunt Jemima is off the pancake box. Do we dare hope for change?
“I wish I knew how it would feel to be free” — Nina Simone, 1967 Here’s a knock-knock joke:“Knock knock.”“Who’s there?”“Aunt Jemima.”“Aunt Jemima who?”“Ain’t yo’ mama on the pancake box?” […]
It’s time to bring the Civil War to an end
From the beginning a civil war was inevitable. The first seven decades of our history are a story of compromise, accommodation and temporizing, all in the attempt to avert armed […]
Puskar embodied Cinderella’s ‘have courage, be kind’
Betty Puskar was a true Cinderella story. Not so much in the rags-to-riches sense. Certainly not in the despised-stepchild-to-beloved-princess sense. What Betty Puskar and the fairytale princess had in common […]
It’s finally time for us to bridge the digital divide
As COVID-19 has pushed many Americans online to work and attend school, we hear a lot about Zoom fatigue and other annoyances. But what about the tens of millions of […]
Each step forward followed by a step back
Ring out the church bells Friday for Juneteenth. Let them be bells of joy because on June 19, 1865, a U.S. Army officer stood on the balcony of a stately […]
Systemic racism has made racists of us all
Systemic racism makes racists of us all, even if we don’t know it. A lot of people’s hackles just rose and a collective, “But I’m not a racist!” echoed through […]
Systemic racism: The far reach of redlining in America
“Systemic racism” has become a key term during the latest incarnation of the Black Lives Matter movement. Systemic racism has been spotlighted as a large contributor to societal ills disproportionately […]
