Chances are you found this blog post through a tweet or a Facebook post or Tumblr post or some other wondrous social medium. Social media is everywhere and everything. It has expanded our national conversation and allowed more voices to participate in discussions both frothy and weighty.  But when it comes to the sensitive subjectContinue reading

Jim Grimsley  on his new book, How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Lessons of a Racist Childhood, which will be published on April 14. I have been watching episodes of Dragnet, the TV series from the late 1960s, a comforting view of the Los Angeles police department that appears, in retrospect, much like propaganda.Continue reading