Teacher and Author
“Kids these days….” The phrase doesn’t need to be completed and usually isn’t. But the meaning is clear. Children have disappointed their parents. Or, if not their own, other parents’ kids have, with their ignorance, rudeness, and general misbehavior. The … Continued
“He was buried in Hyde Park, his impact largely forgotten in the city and region that he loved enough to want to change.” [352] Thus ends Kerry Greenidge’s 2020 biography of the–yes–much neglected William Monroe Trotter. He was born in … Continued
We attend to data that support (confirm) our existing beliefs (biases). The phenomenon is so common it has a name: confirmation bias. I was aware of this process as I read Kerri Greenidge’s important new biography, Black Radical: The … Continued
The seventieth puzzle in my Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! crossword puzzle book had me a little stumped. The actress in The Unbearable Lightness of Being? “This shouldn’t be looked at on the job” letters? Popular baijiu brand? I chiseled away … Continued