Connecting biological and cultural diversity
“Keep the past in the past,” say deniers. (Trigger warning: this is an essay that deals with horrific subject matter.) In the divided United States that I live in, one of the divisions I witness daily involves people who are willing to consider uncomfortable truths vs. people who are not. The folks who can handle […]
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Tomorrow is Juneteenth, “the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States,” one of the more complex observational “holidays” in the USA, because the date of June Nineteenth is related to a number of other key dates, including: September 22, 1862 when President Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation January […]
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JEANINE PFEIFFER 