19 Jan, 2024
We’re Still Moving ‘Beyond Vietnam’
We’re Still Moving ‘Beyond Vietnam’ by Robert C. Koehler 842 words “And some of us who have already begun to...
19 Jan, 2024
15 Jan, 2024
War in Gaza and Yemen Incompatible with King’s Message
War in Gaza and Yemen Incompatible with King’s Message by Wim Laven 614 words “My conscience leaves me no other...
27 Apr, 2023
State of Collapse?
State of Collapse? by Alan Kanner 824 words Perhaps more Americans can offer our own version of the State of...
19 Apr, 2023
Revisiting the Counterculture
Revisiting the Counterculture by Robert C. Koehler 1049 words When’s the last time you had your mind blown? Was this...
13 Jan, 2023
How Safe Can We Really Be?
That’s the guy’s defense, anyway — that plus his right to carry four handguns, an AR-15 and a 12-guage shotgun into a supermarket in Atlanta.
7 Jan, 2023
When America fixes its racism
When we fix racism we’ll save or recoup the $16 trillion estimated to be lost in just this century, not accounting for the $2.4 billion related to health disparities...
21 May, 2022
Mass shootings: It’s the masculinity, people
I’m beyond fed up that the gender of the murderers are still largely absent from conversations about America’s mass shootings crisis.
29 Jun, 2021
Politically correct racism
“The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie.” I offer these words of Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose 2019 essay is part of the New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project,” to the Heritage Foundation and the horde of Republican politicians currently trying to update the look and feel of American racism
29 Apr, 2021
Transcending ‘the religion of whiteness’
Basically, Derek Chauvin was convicted of enforcing the status quo. Because his behavior was caught on video — his knee on George Floyd’s neck, oh my God, choking him to death ...
11 Apr, 2021
One small statement from CDC, one giant hope for our humanity
I (Leslie) am a clinician and have been for many years. I’ve been Black for many more years, all my life.
6 Feb, 2021
America Through the Eyes of Sil D
America Through the Eyes of Sil D by Saskia Hostetler Lippy MD 811 words Published in: LA Progressive, Westside Gazette,...
16 Jan, 2021
Misusing King’s Message
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was profoundly moved by injustice and inequality ubiquitous...
27 Nov, 2020
Is 2020 a watershed?
Is 2020 a watershed? by James A. Haught 584 words Published in: LA Progressive, The Good Men Project, Informed Content,...
22 Oct, 2020
The anti-racist revolution
The nation has less than two weeks left to live in its comfort zone of platitudes. This is by far the most ominous election buildup of my...
12 Aug, 2020
White Christian Bigotry
“Racism is much stronger among America’s white Christians than among churchless whites – and it always has been…” James A....