June 12 will be a very special day for my family. That is because it will be the first year we celebrate Loving Day.
I lost my identity. I was born identifying as a middle class white Jew. I no longer identify religiously nor do I identify as being white. My own family is “mixed” and, as I have come to understand, race identification is only a consequence of prejudice anyway. ...
The IAT test or Implicit Association Test was created to test levels of unconscious bias. I encourage you all to take some of these test yourself and see what lurks in the hidden crevices of your minds or sometimes pushes its way to the front of the line.
It's barely Thanksgiving and I already see holiday decorations around town. Let's start this season off with the intention to remember what matters in life and get along, regardless of religious affiliation or lack thereof :-)
So, I am putting a temporary moratorium on political conversation, turning off the talk radio and tuning out the news for a while. That, in conjunction with my beginning the practice of meditation has made me so much happier.
In a previous post I wrote about Disney’s upcoming animated movie featuring its first black princess, The Princess and The Frog. As the father of biracial children, I am excited about the movie and about the interracial relationship it depicts. Since I brought it up, I didn’t want to ...
Racism exists all over this country and the world. The seemingly unanswerable question is “how do we fight it?”