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Learning About Race and Racism:  Is Discomfort Always Bad?

Leonard Moore, author of Teaching Black History to White People, due out this month, is currently a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.  For more than two decades, he’s taught white students in the south about … Continue reading

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Perspective, Positivity, and the Pandemic:  What College Students Can Learn From Jimmy

Thought I’d share a letter I wrote about my son Jimmy.  It will be shared with athletes attending a university in central New York.  My hope is that it will provide some perspective and positivity in the midst of the … Continue reading

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One in One Hundred

In the fall of 1969, I was a junior at Colgate University.  At that time, Colgate was an all-male liberal arts college of some 2,000 students or so.  Given its rural, isolated location, meeting women was a challenge.  So my … Continue reading

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College, Race, and the Leadership Void At the Top

When I attended Colgate University, I remember Black students taking over the administration building.  They camped out in the hallways and offices and refused to let administrators in until their demands were met.  That was almost fifty years ago. Now, … Continue reading

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Graduation Groupthink

At the end of the school year, I sometimes reflect back on my graduation from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.  In 1971, our graduation speaker was U. S. Secretary of State William P.  Rogers.  I do not remember one … Continue reading

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Santa Claus and the Race Question at Indiana University

Recently, IU’s CommUNITY Education Program thought that it might be a good idea to pose the question, “Can Santa Claus Be a Black Man?”  So they created a big poster with this very question and placed it just inside a … Continue reading

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