E.U.P.  •  February 27, 1995 — March 24, 2005. [I posted this very same photograph and poem last year (here). Muted backstory here (I provided an anchor link to the relevant part). Reader Chumpy posted this link to Joby Talbot’s “Cumulonimbus” in a comment on last year’s post,
Thank heavens I put a note on the calendar, a few weeks back, reminding me to stick some green on the girl before she went to school today. I was fairly sure we’d be in our customary media/culture blackout, and would forget the day, and she’d come home black and
It was from Pam Spaulding that I learned of this open letter to Rev. Rick Warren from Rodney N. Powell, M.D., a former student activist in the Civil Rights Movement and a member of the Board of Directors of Soulforce. Dr. Powell’s remarks take just a little over four minutes,