Back To School

 

So here we are. At least it's good for some laughs.

Put Black Authors On Your Bookshelf

When there was a call to "blackout" the bestseller list, the assignment was easy: look for and buy books by Black authors to read. Here are some of my favorites from the past month:

Chris Fischer Is A Gem

Chris Fischer is a wonderful sense-of-place writer. He also makes a perfect foil for his wife.

Pouch Of Douglas

Hannah Gadsby. So good and so true.

What Is Owed

Nikole Hannah-Jones offers up a concise and powerful history of systemic racism in America in her New York Times article, What Is Owed. It is masterful and makes a watertight case for reparations (Ta-Nehisi Coates did the same in his 2014 article, The Case For Reparations). It is time. It has always been time. Let it be time.

When Fact Is Stranger Than Fiction

A Bolivian pan flute orchestra has been stuck in quarantine on the grounds (600 acres) of a haunted 15th century castle, surrounded by 23 packs of wolves, outside of Berlin for two months. 

A troop of monkeys snatched the blood samples of suspected coronavirus patients at a government hospital in the Meerut district of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

The Other Pandemic

The pandemic that concerns me far more than Covid-19 in the United States is systemic racism. It is an unrelenting and merciless killer. It degrades every American and bludgeons Americans of color.