The Confederate Flag drapes around the plastic of my orthodontic retainer. Before securing the retainer to the roof of my mouth, I sometimes ask: how
When asked once how he went from his dysfunctional, impoverished household with an abusive, alcoholic father to being a Pulitzer Prize-winning author able to purchase
James Baldwin reminded us in 1956 that “there are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to
Around this time last year, I was in the thick of preparing for my final exams at the University of Delaware. Meanwhile, I did a
It has been absolutely fascinating, encouraging, welcoming and uplifting to see what we are made of—yet dreadfully under the circumstances—and to observe so many different
Much of the news coverage of COVID-19 has been about major cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. But as the nation struggles
For Choctaws, not attending funeral services may be the hardest part of the COVID-19 public-health guidance to follow. It’s hard to be told not to attend services or to be able to provide physical comfort for the family in mourning.
We wait in lines, 6 feet apart, to enter the grocery store. We wave at our loved ones through computer screens. We don’t touch each other anymore. The world has entered the Covid Zone.
We can’t contain the coronavirus. That’s not the point of all this “social distancing.” What they’re trying to do is slow the rate of infection. It has spread. It will spread. The rate of spread is the key.
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