What would a more just and equitable United States look like in 2042? I would like to think it would look like sustainable development operating at the neighborhood level across the country, and that this would necessarily be occurring in a world that is finally moving closer to sustainability on a global scale. Globally [...]

By Alison D. Goebel I am a white middle class woman.  I grew up in the 1990s in the middle class suburbs of Chicago, one of the nation’s most segregated cities.  While I had classmates who were Arab American, Asian American, Latino and 1.5 generation Eastern European American, they didn’t live on my street, they [...]

By Josh Bassett I direct a specialized educational program in Detroit, conducted through the city’s only community college, Wayne County Community College District; it allows high school students from both Detroit and its metropolitan suburbs to earn college credits while engaging in academic studies of race and social identity that will be directly relevant to [...]

By John Kuckuk After the nation seemed to be mired in vituperation, more and more people joined the rising majority, working to re-establish the framework for our country written by our nation’s Founders.   In the American Revolution, bright “provincials” put monarchy behind them and grasped the strangeness of democracy with determination.  In two hundred years, [...]

By Martha Barry The legacy of race. Skin color as a means of separation and segregation had been used to convince us that we were distinctly different from one another. One’s race was institutionalized (used to determine which “box” you belonged in) such that one group was seen as clearly better, superior, more important, than [...]

By Dale Johnson Tooth. I had to find a word to start my thinking as regards race, and I started with tooth. I pause. I write in the stream and all and tooth- open your mouth. Let me look at your teeth. This terror is above all other terror. I can’t even imagine the deep [...]

By Patrick McHale When proposed the notion of a United States that has progressed in equality and winning the fight against racism, sexism, and prejudice he viewed a very different America then today.  An America without prejudice is the real American Dream.  An America where being a melting pot is a blessing rather than a [...]