Many White individuals have been engaged in public condemnations of racism since May, when George Floyd was murdered. It’s tempting to see all this activity as a new age for America, a surge toward racial justice. It could be...

My young friend, Valerie Echeveste, recently sent a letter to the Catholic preparatory school that she attended, prodding the school to make a commitment to racial justice. Her suggestions for school leaders included openly condemning the murders of Black men,...

A few days ago, I discovered that Living As Equals had a technical glitch that looks like it started back in December. The mailing list began sending email notifications of a new post to only a handful of subscribers, rather...

  People who are working towards a more just society often find themselves scorned for asking others not to use certain words or phrases. Referring to a woman as a “girl,” for example, will cause the hackles to rise on...

How do you think this sounds to women everywhere: Universal basic income for every citizen to eradicate gender and racial gaps in wages....

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A couple of days ago I was at the hairdresser’s for the first time in 12 weeks. Masks on, hand sanitizer liberally applied, sterilizer prepping her three pairs of scissors. Those weren’t the only differences....

Images of gun-toting, angry white people storming the Michigan Capitol building to get their way (ABC News, 4/30/2020) have gotten me thinking this week about the utter chaos of living in a society that does not focus on equality....

Vincent Hardin, an African-American historian of the civil rights movement, said, “We are citizens of a country that we still have to create—a just country, a compassionate country, a forgiving country,...

One day, a coyote walked across the Golden Gate Bridge, another roamed the streets of NYC, places open to creatures in the absence of cars and people....