I resolved to write an article on Lemuel Haynes in observation of black history month. 200 years before America saw a black president, Haynes was the black pastor of a mostly all-white church in Rutland, Vermont. He is a significant figure. Yet, he is not well known. I grew up less than one hundred miles […]
“He’s black, but…” Those three words always mark the beginning of a bigoted statement. They get thrown around in ivory towers of suburbia where the skin is just as ivory and the ebony is rarely seen and never within earshot. I know because I was raised in such an ivory tower. I wasn’t rich, but […]
