When I think of voter suppression, I think of blatant efforts in the past, both legal and illegal, to prevent eligible voters from...

There was a time when Americans, specifically white Americans such as myself, eagerly supported government entitlement programs and had...

My Guest Column in Los Angeles Free Press, July 2020 The Los Angeles Free Press recently posted Marc Jacobs fifty-year-old review of Alan...

Many of my friends in the nonprofit sector are asking how to make a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). If your...

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....

The 4th of July - a wonderful time to pause to honor the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. As the...

Law enforcement is a difficult job. Among my family members is a police officer, a deputy sheriff, and a California Highway Patrol...

My Guest Column in The Los Angeles Free Press July, 2020 August, 1970. I was a white high schooler in my even-whiter southern California...

Here’s a phrase I hear from many of my white friends. “I’m not a racist.” Of course you’re not a racist – you’re not burning crosses on...

Women’s Strike 1970: A Unique Perspective by Carolyn L. Baker, M.Ed. Guest Writer, Los Angeles Free Press. It was fifty years ago this...

Through the process of finalizing Chapter 5: Womanism of An Unintentional Accomplice I had the opportunity for frank conversations with...

For a while now I’ve been recommending white people to read books written by black authors. As a companion to this, I highly recommend...

A question I am often asked is “What does it mean to ‘do the work’ of inclusivity?” In An Unintentional Accomplice: A Personal...

“By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority.” reads the book jacket for Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the...

I attended grade school and middle school in segregated southern California in the 1950s and 1960s. The history of Tulsa Race Massacre in...

Slavery was put to an end when President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and it went into effect in 1862. Right? Well not...

In the aftermath of the 1965 Watts Riot it was this The Los Angeles Free Press headline by the late, great Art Kunkin that captured the...

In a recent Huffpost article, “Amy Cooper Knew Exactly What She Was Doing,” Zeba Blay relates Carolyn Bryant’s 1955 false accusation of...

I was all set to do an interview on a radio station in Kentucky to promote my forthcoming book, An Unintentional Accomplice: A Personal...

It’s been fifty-five years since Ridgeley Cummings wrote this article in the Los Angeles Free Press wherein he suggested that readers...