by Helms Jarrell | Oct 7, 2026 | Opinion
It is a hot July afternoon. Folks have arrived from different places, carrying different stories, experiences, hopes and burdens. A Black woman, an elder and leader in the activist community, welcomes participants to a journey. She invites them into the history of the...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Oct 1, 2026 | Opinion
When Christopher, Greek for “Christ bringer,” Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, he carried the most primitive and savage worldview to the people who discovered this lost sailor off their shores. My conquistador forefathers, who joined him, raped the Indigenous...
by Donald E. Williams | Aug 25, 2026 | Opinion
The recent tragic death of Professor Jason Arday, formerly of the University of Cambridge, weighs heavily on my heart. Arday was the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. He also faced an extraordinary level of public and media scrutiny over his...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Aug 11, 2026 | Opinion
During the early 1980s, I was a young hot Latino living in Miami, Florida. One summer, I decided to take a road trip north to visit my old stomping grounds, New York City. I jumped in my cherry red Capri and roared northward on I-95. I was a few miles away from my...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jul 15, 2026 | Opinion
In his groundbreaking book Habits of the Heart, Robert Bellah conducts a deep sociological dive into U.S. culture and religiosity. Despite how influential the book has been for generations of sociologists and religion scholars, it nonetheless fell short....
