I Invite You to Join Me. I’m a former high school history teacher who, for the past seven years, has been building a racial justice history website: CrossCulturalSolidarity.com. I hope you enjoy the 150 deep-dive resources there. I hope you share them with the teachers and activists in your life…

Foundational Principles: The Importance of Mobilizing White People This project is grounded in the longstanding call from the Black Freedom Struggle — historically and in the present — for White people to mobilize other White people for racial justice. This project takes seriously that we cannot end systemic racial inequity…

On February 21, 2022, I interviewed Anne Braden’s biographer, Cate Fosl. Anne Braden is an essential figure in the history of White antiracism. In our interview, Cate discusses what drew her to Anne’s story, and what it was like to work with Anne. Cate also discusses her personal journey into…

Well: it’s been quite the year, but I’m proud of what I accomplished in 2020. In addition to publishing thirteen articles on a variety of subjects related to racial justice, I built thirty-three resource pages on the subjects of multiracial solidarity, systemic racism, and White supremacy. I’m happy to say…

How Their Stories Can Help Strengthen White Antiracist Organizing Today “What is my role, in this moment?” That was what I was asking myself as protests swept the country in the wake of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. …

This is the fourth piece in my “freedom as a long distance struggle” series, originally published on October 18, 2020. A month after the May 25th murder of George Floyd, Sherrilyn Ifill (of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund) tweeted: “It’s not a win if this time next year…

This is my third installment in a series on “freedom as a long distance struggle.” It was originally published on September 15, 2020. In one of my recent posts, I alluded to freedom as a long distance struggle as a beautiful way of life. Part of that beauty arises from…

This is my second piece in a series on “freedom as a long distance struggle.” It was originally published in July 2020, a few months after the George Floyd uprisings. Of the thousands of pages that I’ve read by and about W.E.B. Du Bois, a random fact lodged itself in…

What does “freedom as a long distance struggle” mean in this moment? That was the question I originally intended to write about, but as I did, the writing took on too many dimensions for a single, short piece: freedom as a long distance struggle meant everything from building intergenerational relationships…