Only in retrospect can I see that I put aside what I had always loved to help my mother and, by extension, all patients who had been objectified by their doctors. Math and science had always come easy. As a girl wunderkind in these fields, I enjoyed the attention of…

Republican’s Spew Harmful Rhetoric While President Trump and his Senate enablers have made the wealthy even wealthier, the Democratic House continues to pass bills meant to meet the basic needs of everyday citizens, especially during the pandemic. The Republicans’ response? Make the term socialism radioactive and call anyone who supports universal health care and fair wages a socialist. Should Americans die because their employers do not provide health insurance? Shouldn’t all workers earn a living wage?

Trump is our Trojan horse terrorist. He snuck into our sacred halls of government trumpeting grandiose deeds to “make America great again” but really signaling the menacing message to his true believers that he would build a xenophobic, sexist, racist white patriarchy. Trump and his enablers are relentlessly biting off…

Covid-19 requires Americans to face harsh truths. We must dismantle the sacrosanct American myth that deifies individualism so that we can embrace the social responsibility imperatives that will defeat this pandemic. When Trump refuses to require all Americans to socially isolate and to wear masks, he worships at the Church of the Sacred Self. When Trump will not use the Defense Production Act to allow the federal government to efficiently take care of all sick Americans, he resurrects the Temple of States’ Rights that continues to separate us.

A few summers ago, a distressed, disheveled, probably homeless woman was delivering a disjointed speech to Paramount Theater patrons waiting on line to get in. Most people ignored her. Some gazed at her surreptitiously. Suddenly, a police car drove up and out came a young policeman who respectfully confronted this…

America is suffering from whitism, a creed that rests on disabling lies. Whitism engenders the belief that the world was made to serve whites. Therefore, coal mining and manufacturing jobs must be coming back because why should whites have to adjust to a changing world? Whitism asserts that any adversity…

Trump has turned living in America into riding a roller coaster. He lies; we lurch from side. He fires his opponents; we close our eyes in fear for the Constitution. He mishandles the coronavirus pandemic; we suffer unnecessarily as the cars speed down too fast by ignoring the brakes proposed…

White superiority is killing America. More than the cult of selfishness, which New York Times columnist Paul Krugman blames for America’s catastrophic response to the pandemic, the ingrained self-delusion required by white supremacy has rendered the American public helpless when faced with unpalatable facts. Institutions like the government, the education…

What Happens to a Dream Deferred? Although Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes died over fifty years ago, his poems speak to the outpouring of anger and grief we are seeing in cities all over America. In his poem “Harlem,” Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry…