The African American son of a white mother, Santi Elijah Holley revisits Hannukahs past with his Jewish forebears.
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Finding My Identity By the Light of My Mother’s Menorah
The African American son of a white mother, Santi Elijah Holley revisits Hannukahs past with his Jewish forebears.
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My Experience at Charlie Rose Went Beyond Sexism
A personal essay in which writer and producer Rebecca Carroll catalogs her experiences with not only sexism, by racism as well, as the only black woman on Charlie Rose’s staff in the late 90s.
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Assertiveness Training
A personal essay in which Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Assertiveness Training
Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Assertiveness Training
Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.
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Can Portland’s River Cleanup Correct Environmental Injustice?
The Willamette River, a superfund site, was once Portland’s lifeblood. A massive cleanup project could restore it for the communities of color that had long relied on it for food, work, and leisure.
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To the Lady Who Mistook Me For the Help at the National Book Awards
A personal essay by poet Patrick Rosal — an excerpt of We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America, edited by Brando Skyhorse and Lisa Page. The piece is framed as a letter to a white woman who mistook him for a server at the black-tie National Book Awards gala, which he […]
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The He’s-Got-to-Be-the-Help-Because-He’s-Brown Mistake
Patrick Rosal writes an open letter to a woman who mistook him for a waiter at the National Book Awards.
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Uncovering Hidden History on the Road to Clanton
Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.