Reflections

  • Reflections on the Foremost

    What happens when you read the foremost [white] expert on a person’s work, before reading the work itself? No person of my complexion can visit this country without being struck with the marked difference between the English and the Americans. American abolitionist, historian, and author William Wells Brown, upon arrival in Liverpool, July 1849. For

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  • Reflections on Representation

    This National Adoption Awareness Month, I reflect on what might have been, and what still could be I remember the first time I really saw myself in a book.  Tired and raw from a wet winter in the Pacific Northwest, I’d fled Seattle for the sunbaked sand of the Florida Keys where, in a white

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Women with long, curly hair seated on a stoop. She is wearing an army green jacket and jeans, smiling at the camera.