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#272 Oct 8, 2020 #264: Abolition For The People – Happy Thursday, loyal readers, and thank you for opening today’s issue of The Highlighter. I grew up
#271 Oct 1, 2020 #263: Is Freedom White? – Welcome to October, loyal readers! Thank you for opening today’s issue of The Highlighter. It’s a goo
#270 Sep 24, 2020 #262: The Glorious RBG – I’m one of those people who believed that Ruth Bader Ginsburg would live forever. You too? When she d
#269 Sep 17, 2020 #261: Climate Migration Will Reshape America – Happy Thursday, loyal readers, and thank you for opening today’s newsletter. I appreciate your reader
#268 Sep 12, 2020 VIP #8: Reading Tendencies – Hi VIPs! Last week, I got an email from a loyal reader who wishes I included more articles from a var
#267 Sep 10, 2020 #260: Raising A Black Family In White America – Let’s begin this edition with some gratitude. This week, I received several kind notes from you, than
#266 Sep 3, 2020 #259: On Witness And Respair – Happy Thursday, loyal readers, and thank you for opening today’s issue of The Highlighter. Back in Ma
#265 Aug 27, 2020 #258: A Beautiful Life – As August comes to a close, teachers are building relationships with their students from a distance,
#264 Aug 20, 2020 #257: The Douglass Republic – Happy Thursday, loyal readers, and welcome especially to the newer members of our reading community w
#263 Aug 13, 2020 #256: The Unraveling Of America – Happy Thursday, loyal readers! Are you as busy this week as I am? This year’s start of school has rem
#262 Aug 6, 2020 #255: American Denial – Happy Thursday, loyal readers! Especially when work is busy (definitely true this week), I look forwa
#261 Jul 30, 2020 #254: Nice White Parents – We’re almost in August, loyal readers, which means that school’s around the corner again. How did tha
#260 Jul 23, 2020 #253: An American Founder – John Lewis died this week. He’s an inspiration to me not only because of his courage but also because
#259 Jul 16, 2020 #252: The Test Of Their Lives – Hi loyal readers, and thank you for opening today’s issue of The Highlighter. Unless you live off the
#258 Jul 9, 2020 #251: The Model Minority Myth Hurts Us All – For the third week in a row, last week’s issue was the most popular in The Highlighter’s history, tha
#257 Jul 2, 2020 #250: My Body Is A Confederate Monument – Just like that, we’ve reached the 250th issue of The Highlighter. Loyal readers, thank you for your s
#256 Jun 25, 2020 #249: What Is Owed – In a 1967 speech, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “It didn’t cost the nation anything to in
