I rise on the shoulders of ancestors whose names I can not know.

When disability is understood as dependency, disability is posited in direct contrast to American ideals of independence and autonomy.

Slavery is made to sound as if it happened in a prehistoric age instead of only a few generations ago.

The history of conquest is a scourge on the human condition. A lingering one.

The chalice, as a symbol of Unitarian Universalism, arose as a beacon of hope in an atmosphere of tyranny. The chalice arose as a sign of promise that the marginalized would neither be forgotten nor ignored, because they are beloved and precious from the perspective of the Holy. This morning, we...

Ironically, Americans who self-identify as not racist—whether they're conservatives, moderates, liberals, radicals, progressives—they don't realize… that we are connecting ourselves to a history of slave traders who self-identified as not racist (although they didn't use that term). We're...

On August 25, 1619, the ship the White Lion arrived at Point Comfort, now known as Fort Monroe National Monument in Hampton, Virginia. The ship contained enslaved Africans. This is the first recorded arrival of Africans in America....

Whiteness has been used throughout the histories of America and Europe to praise desirable groups of people and exclude undesirable groups. But “whiteness” is not a ethnic group, a cultural group, or a nationality. In the United States, the Supreme Court legally defined what it meant to be...

Innocence does not die at once, in that first raptured thrust. It dies in each small seduction, in every subsequent acquiescence....