I once taught an 8 am college class. So many grandparents died that semester. I then moved my class to 3 pm. No more deaths. And that, my friends, is how I save lives.
1/ I'm re-reading the autobiography of Frederick Douglass published in 1845. It is all-too-easy for us to forget what a brutal, horrific, inhuman reality slavery was. Facing it, as Douglass forces us to do, makes us wonder how people could have supported or tolerated it. And yet