Sassafras Mama

I have wanted to visit the Smithsonian Museum of African American history since it first opened in 2015.   When my nephew and his girlfriend...

In the New York Times today there was an article about Covid (and it seems like every article is about Covid…..but that is a topic for anoth...

I love my country with a depth that has fostered a career spent teaching about its history and politics.   I am a patriot who named her only...

I vividly remember the history class where I first learned about Juneteenth.   I was an undergraduate at UCLA - so it was the late ‘80s - an...

Time is flying past and I am just a few days from being the parent of a high school graduate who is excited to run off to college and s...

It’s Monday, the day I usually post a few pictures of my garden and reflect upon the growing season to date.   But today, a garden post can...

I've been a long-standing opponent of the death penalty and for most of my  life that's been an uphill battle.   Though American sup...

I can't claim credit for turning up this Esquire article about Ray Towler , a who man who spent 29 years in jail for  crime he didn'...