Racial Identity A family’s legacy My eighth-grade teacher taught us as if the eighth grade was going to be our last year of education.
Slavery in America An ancestor’s escape from slavery My grandmother’s grandmother ran and hid with her baby under a log to escape her captors.
Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights was just life When I was 14, I got all dressed up to see the national NAACP leader speak at the YWCA.
Racial Unity Working for racial harmony I am a black woman so I felt my duty was to talk about race in a positive way, not dwelling on what we have been through.
Bahai Community Building Pushing forward as Baha’is When Emmett Till was killed, many Baha’is said it was too bad, but we did not have the experience to address it.
Racial Unity Showing the way to survive Once you deal with people who are persecuted you never really stop.
Racial Identity On raising black children As I get older, I find that my kids don’t need my opinion, they need my love.
