I was reminded of an incident that happened to me in the late sixties, (yeah, I was around then). We were participating in a protest/sit-in at my high school and we were advocating for a more inclusive curriculum and teacher hiring practices.  The president of the high school encountered the protest participants with the often stated question, […]

I was driving to Newark Penn Station to drop my daughter off at the Path train. I was about two blocks away, and a disheveled black man, who looked younger than me, probably in his fourties, stopped by the car window with his change cup in tow. I tried to avoid his glance – thinking […]