by Vijaya Nagarajan | Jun 11, 2020 | Personal Essays
Literary fiction Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward George Floyd, “‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’, The Magna Carta, and the Commonsby Vijaya NagarajanGeorge Floyd, a 46-year old Black man, was murdered by the white policeman, Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis...
by Aya de Leon | Jun 8, 2020 | Opinion, Personal Essays
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead. And then it happened. The Minneapolis City Council, in a veto-proof majority, voted to defund the MPD. After years of...
by Aya de Leon | Jun 1, 2020 | Personal Essays
As a young person, I developed a special defense around police violence, an extra layer of numbness. My mother was a civil rights attorney who specialized in police abuse. She always drove a non-descript car. “I sue cops,” she said. She didn’t want to make herself a...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | May 27, 2020 | Personal Essays
My dear 80-year old Jesuit colleague, Father Daniel Kendall, passed away in the middle of last night peacefully at 2:30 am. The Night of Memorial Day, Tuesday, May 26. He was in good health, swimming long laps most days for decades. His retirement had just been...
by Aya de Leon | May 26, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Personal Essays
My twitter feed blew up over the weekend. The Lily ran a story about how women are losing professional ground in the pandemic. They titled/subtitled the piece, “‘I had to choose being a mother’: With no child care or summer camps, women are being edged out of the...
by Aya de Leon | May 21, 2020 | Audio/Visual, Personal Essays
As the weeks march forward, I continue to shelter-in-place with my family. This past weekend, we had a media first. I let my kid binge-watch an entire season of Netflix over the weekend. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Season 5 (the finale!) For anyone unfamiliar,...
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