Street view of the F. W. Woolworth building in Greensboro, North Carolina. There are a dozen people standing on the sidewalk in front of the building.

When We Hide the Past in Plain Sight

Jim Crow is an evil, yes, and many of us have a social response of “that’s so terrible.”

But we do not want to admit how terrible it was and is again.

We are a country of people proud to be Americans but so ashamed of our actual history that we erase it and suppress it from being taught and learned and seen.

Does History Matter?

I’m involved in life, like many people, and one thing that fascinates me is how we forget our past when … More