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Mar 2, 20226 min read

Claudette Colvin: Redux

Today is the anniversary of Claudette Colvin's arrest. On March 2, 1955, the 15-year old refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery,...

Sep 8, 20194 min read

Pay It Forward

"Everyone please go see this show! You hear people say “Art is Resistance” . . . well this definitely fits that bill. You are taken on a...

Sep 2, 20195 min read

Colorism

In Alice Walker’s 1983 book, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose, she coined the term “colorism” to define a form of...

Jul 20, 20195 min read

Noire

The poster caught my eye, so I crossed the street to take a closer look. An outsized young girl sits on top of a yellow bus that looked...

Jun 24, 20184 min read

Inconsolable

I steeled myself before playing the audio of the distraught immigrant children separated from their parents and shipped off to detention...

Jun 9, 20184 min read

Would YOU Change Your Name?

When we were young lawyers, a Chicana friend working as a public defender shared this story with me. She needed to interview a...

May 24, 20182 min read

It Is Official 10/25-12/8

My one-woman show, Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? will have a 7-week run at The San Francisco Marsh Theatre, the Bay Area’s...

May 15, 20184 min read

Men Abusing Power

A newspaper headline catches my eye; allegations that the mayor of Driscoll, Texas, is under investigation for racial slurs and sexual...

Aug 19, 20173 min read

Gracias San Antonio + Four SF Shows in September

Touched By Your Generous Reception A belated shout-out to The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and its staff, and the 200 folks who...