Alderperson Fiske, I must start by offering you my sincerest apologies. Apparently, all the times that I've shown up at City Council I have not paid you enough individual attention. Imagine my gall to show up at City Council in an “ugly manner”, forgetting my “civility” and “aggressively” quibbling over…

People have been on the streets for the last week nonstop screaming, “STOP KILLING BLACK PEOPLE,” and all this air time and written word dedicated to a cop that kneels is the equivalent of the media sending us the message of “Not All Cops!” JUST STOP! Please stop sharing the…

“At Our Institution, We Welcome Diversity.” If you hear those words while considering joining an organization or workplace: RUN! For a member of a marginalized community, this is a trap of epic proportions that will mess with your mind and heart like a real-life game of Get Out. The concept that a group or organization can…

LGBTQ+ issues are hot button issues. Anti-Vaxxing discussions will end a playdate before the first cheerio hits the floor. So when I combine these two issues to create an analogy, I expect that a volcano will erupt, but I like to live on the wild side, so here goes. Refusing…

If I had a penny for every time I heard, “We moved to Evanston for the Diversity” I’d be sitting on a beach in Fiji permanently. But to be fully upfront, it’s why I moved my multi-racial family here too. We all fell for the utopian myth of the diversity…

A few days ago, my Facebook timeline was abuzz with an Op-ed from the NY Times by Loretta Ross entitled; “I’m a Black Feminist. I Think Call-Out Culture Is Toxic.” I scrolled passed it on several occasions, knowing that I had to be in a darn near saintly frame of…

There is no denying that this country is strung collectively tight. Marginalized people have had an extra-large orange boot stepping on their backs, and they are rightfully angry. Immigrants, African Americans, people with disabilities, women, Muslims, and Indigenous people speak out in frustration and the Right, wavering center and the…

How to Check Your Racist Uncle Over the Holidays — It’s Thanksgiving again and that means it’s time to put all your “woke” white folk, self-congratulating accolades into to practice. It’s simply not enough to re-tweet videos of injustice against people of color and lament to your friends how wrong it all is. This holiday put your mouth where your…

So it’s Halloween again and 5-year-old Becky wants to be Moana and 4-year-old Preston can’t wait to play Black Panther, and even my most “woke” friends can’t seem to wrap their minds around why this is an issue. Moms who pride themselves on being white allies can’t get behind the…