CN: frank reflections on anti-Black lynching. Today, the Equal Justice Institute announced a new historical marker in Letohatchee, Alabama, a tiny town 24 miles south-west of the state capital, Montgomery. Non-Alabamians know Montgomery as the capital of the Confederate States of America during the 1860s and the site of the anti-segregation bus boycott during the […]
Freedom delayed isn’t freedom.
I’d never even heard of Juneteenth until I started living in Texas. The international mythology around US abolitionism and emancipation is, like British abolitionist mythology, so thick that no one had ever told me it took the enslaved people of Texas two and half years to discover that President Lincoln’s executive order had taken effect […]
Comfort food
I ate a quarter of a large Ledo’s olive pizza this morning. For breakfast. It was a meal with all the right pieces: carbohydrate, protein, vegetables. I don’t always eat pizza for breakfast, but when I do, I wolf down a quarter of it, and then I tell myself it’s a meal with all the right pieces. […]