Category Archives: Everyday Life

The NAACP’s Divorce From the Black Church

This article was first published in the Harrisburg (PA) Patriot-News print (7/15/12) and online (7/14/12) editions under the title “Gay marriage issue splits black church and NAACP.” As I was growing up in the segregated South of the 1950s, the NAACP was an important part of my world. I heard about it in school –… Read More »

Am I a Monster?

Yesterday I caught a mouse. Today, as far as I know, that mouse is still alive and suffering. And I am feeling like a heartless monster. After several hours of hearing scrapping noises in our den, my wife finally was perturbed enough to call me at church and ask me to come home and find… Read More »