by Aya de Leon | Mar 11, 2020 | Guest Post, Personal Essays
(Jan Gilbrecht is a long time friend of my family. She wrote up a wonderful first person account of working at the polls on Super Tuesday, and. I invited her to post it as a guest on the Daily Dose. Yesterday’s primary was tough for the Green New Deal, but the...
by Aya de Leon | Mar 9, 2020 | Personal Essays
My African American great grandfather was a tailor in South Carolina. In the 1930s, he owned a small shop and was able to support his family. One day—as the story goes—a white man came into his shop and became abusive. He yelled at my great grandfather. My great...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Mar 4, 2020 | Personal Essays
Today, March 4, 2020 is the day after one of the most important primary elections for the Democratic presidential nomination. Sixteen states voting for delegates. This presidential election seems so critical in ways previously unimaginable. I’m reminded of an ancient...
by Aya de Leon | Mar 2, 2020 | Personal Essays
Recently, I have begun to understand white people a little better. I am a California Puerto Rican, born in Los Angeles and grew up in the Oakland Bay Area. Earthquake country. The recent quakes in Puerto Rico are a tectonic collision of my history: my grandmother’s...
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