by Nell Green | Aug 18, 2020 | Opinion
We sat around the table asking each other, “How can we address this?” A relative of one of our anti-trafficking coalition’s committee members had posted an article about a ruse where girls were lured to cars in a mall parking lot and kidnapped. After the abduction,...
by Nell Green | Jul 28, 2020 | Opinion
Some of the everyday words we use have racist connotations. That was the focus of a July 7 article published by CNN, which asked readers to consider changing their vocabulary. I don’t disagree, except for one problem: Masters and slaves still exist. We still need the...
by Nell Green | Jun 15, 2020 | Opinion
The protests resulting from George Floyd’s asphyxiation by a white police officer arose just as COVID-19 measures were being loosened somewhat in Texas. So, my husband and I decided we would be as careful as possible and go to the protest here in Houston. I had...
by Nell Green | Jun 10, 2019 | Opinion
We were in an atelier where they made mosaic tables and other articles. Young boys were fashioning bricks and putting them into wood-burning kilns stretching their arms deep into the fiery furnace. Their arms bore the scars of burns and other accidents. Other boys sat...
by Nell Green | Dec 6, 2017 | Opinion
It is called “the door of no return.” It is a chilling site. Goree Island, off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, is notorious for the slave house that was the departure point for many slaves headed to North America during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. A gang...
