Note: For me and for my readers, it is good to pause every so often to take a more personal, less intellectual and philosophical approach to equality. I call these “inside-out” exercises because they draw from deep inside our own...

In San Diego, a white woman leaving a restaurant went on a 3 ½ minute rant against a group of people waiting to be seated for a family birthday party. Hearing these people speaking to one another in their native...

At a conference for writers, about 40 people crowded into a workshop on writing personal essays. The workshop leader wanted to get us off to a fast start by thinking about a topic that was easily relatable: hair. Hair? We...