Congratulations to Simone Manuel on becoming the first African American to win an Olympic Gold Medal in an individual swimming event! Manuel won gold in the 100m freestyle competition on Thursday, August 11th. With all the racial controversy that’s been in the news over the past few years, many (typically whites) will say, “I don’t […]
“The Butler” and other recent movies on helping understand racism
Jen and I just got home from watching the star-studded movie The Butler: The thing I’m struck most about the Civil Rights Movement is how recent it was, yet how my generation and the generations younger than mine have such limited consciousness of the things that went on, and how these things have shaped American […]