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Carolyn L. Baker, Ed.D.
Award-winning author of
An Unintentional Accomplice:
A Personal Perspective on White Responsibility
and the upcoming
DISPATCHES, From Racial Divide to a Road of Repair,
A Collection of Essays
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Use Giving Tuesday for amends and reparations.
Giving Tuesday is a worldwide opportunity for people to come together - through generosity in all its forms - by sharing acts of kindness...
Carolyn L. Baker
Nov 30, 2021
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"I Am From..."
I am from Boston colonists who traded in Black bodies. I am from the dishonesty that is America's founding promise. I am from the...
Carolyn L. Baker
Aug 7, 2021
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100 years after the Tulsa Race Massacre
One hundred years ago, 10,000 state-sponsored White supremacists destroyed a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, OK. The history of...
Carolyn L. Baker
Jun 5, 2021
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The Battleground for the Imagination
​ Growing up white, and in segregated communities, I didn’t think I even had a race. There was nothing to be questioned, learned about,...
Carolyn L. Baker
Mar 2, 2021
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Veterans of Color Deserve More than a Salute.
I am the proud daughter of a 33-year career Navy veteran, Lt. Cmdr. Earl Ross Baker. The photo shows the cherished display case with his...
Carolyn L. Baker
Nov 10, 2020
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A Season of Reckoning
In this national election week, when patience is a virtue, we are witnessing both a societal transformation and a deeply divided country....
Carolyn L. Baker
Nov 6, 2020
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Economic Apartheid
There was a time when Americans, specifically white Americans such as myself, eagerly supported government entitlement programs and had...
Carolyn L. Baker
Jul 17, 2020
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The Results of An Open Mind
My Guest Column in the Los Angeles Free Press July 2020: An open mind is said by some to be a virtue that corrects errors in judgment....
Carolyn L. Baker
Jul 7, 2020
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion this 4th of July 2020
The 4th of July - a wonderful time to pause to honor the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. As the...
Carolyn L. Baker
Jul 3, 2020
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