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“Two fish are swimming in the water and an older, wiser fish swims by. He says, “Good morning, how’s the water?” One of the younger fish looks a bit puzzled and says, “Excuse me, what is water?” – David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech Excerpt. Racism in America is like water to a fish. You …

On this day in 1865, after the Civil War ended, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas were told they were free from bondage – two years after the Emancipation Proclamation declared them so. In celebration of the news, the day became known as “Juneteenth,” a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S. …

The United States is changing. What started with a few hundred English colonizers on Indigenous lands over 400 years ago has become a nation with more than 330 million people. While we were always a diverse nation, the United States has always been a country where White people were in the majority. This will soon …