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Developing Humans, Not Human Capital
It’s six am, your shift starts in an hour, and your one-year-old has a fever. You scroll through your contacts wondering who can watch your baby. Why, you wonder, is…
Read MoreVoice and Vote: Updates on Legislation
Since 2020, a number of columnists and pundits have been saying democracy is under siege in the US. Perhaps it is, or maybe this generation is learning for itself the…
Read MoreWhy Consent Is Critical: HB 1079
What if Bobby Knight’s 1988 words to Connie Chung- “I think that if rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it”- had been uttered in 2018? Would they have killed his…
Read MoreHear The Untold Story Of Civil Rights
The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 might be something of a miracle even with the dynamism of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the energy of Rev. Ralph Abernathy and…
Read MoreA Round Up Of Objections To HB
Disclosure: I try to keep my persona out of most League columns, but as an educator for the past eighteen years, I cannot. Like most educators, I have stories of…
Read MoreThe League Of Black Women
The League of Black Women is not in the Marvel-verse, but you will marvel. These women helped save the world through poetry, advocacy, ministry, activism, and flight. One even escaped…
Read MoreSmall town challenge: Mental health of Black women
“Everybody has business they need to unload and spill,” said Erika Frazier. For her, it’s grief, the end of her marriage, the stress of being her parents’ caregivers and the…
Read MoreWhy join the League of Women Voters
Now is always a good time to join the League of Women Voters. If you are like me, you’ve waited, maybe because of young kids, a career, school, a bevy…
Read MoreMicro-homing could transform housing, even here
“Imagine a combat vet in his small town where there’s low crime and a high military population. He should fit into the community, but he’s unhomed. He has a disability…
Read MoreAgreeing to Disagree, How Local Leaders Lead
When the street department announced it would put a four-way stop just around the corner from Dari-Licious at Oak and Market streets, a Facebook acquaintance lamented that he’d not attended…
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