I’m white, and from a place where the population was well over 98% white. I am therefore not qualified to discuss these topics. So in honor of Juneteenth, here are a small collection of hubs leading to better voices to listen to.
As a fun little experiment for Halloween, some bloggers here are writing a story in a chain form.
This story starts at The Bolingbrook Babbler. Previous section at Freethinking Ahead.
In the distance down Highway 1, a set of headlights flicked into view. That had happened plenty of times during the evening, but this was the first since the sun slipped below the horizon and also the first that caused all of the pickup’s occupants to tense up. Mateo lifted a pair of field glasses to his eyes and peered toward them.
“Is that them?” Connie and Kyle asked in unison, then gave each other a disconcerted glance. [Read more…]