The Highlighter By Mark Isero The best of the week on race, education, and culture. 262 issues Subscribe to our newsletter This thingy has to be empti pwieshh
#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
#255 Jun 18, 2020 #248: Trying To Parent My Black Teenagers Through Protest And Pandemic – Last week’s issue was The Highlighter’s most-read-yet. I appreciate your interest in reading well-wri
#254 Jun 15, 2020 VIP #7: True Story – Hi VIPs! A few of you contacted me over the weekend and asked, “Did you send me this True Story thing
#253 Jun 11, 2020 #247: Call It What It Is – Our reading community is quite a bit bigger and stronger this week, thanks to the good word of loyal
#252 Jun 4, 2020 #246: No One Is Coming To Save Us – Thank you very much, loyal readers, for opening today’s issue of the newsletter. This week, Bryan Ste
#251 May 28, 2020 #245: Sense Of Strength – The weather has turned warm in the Bay Area, loyal readers, which brings me great joy and most people
#250 May 25, 2020 VIP #6: The Most Popular Articles So Far This Year – Hi VIPs! It’s Memorial Day weekend, so I figured I would send you a little surprise gift in case you
#249 May 21, 2020 #244: Shadowland – Happy Thursday, loyal readers, and thank you for opening today’s issue of The Highlighter. A couple w
#248 May 14, 2020 #243: Only A Mile And A Big World Separated Us – We’ve reached the middle of May, loyal readers! I’m happy to announce that I’m noticing more high-qua
#247 May 7, 2020 #242: Full-Timing Families 🚐 – It’s Thursday, loyal readers, which means it’s time for another installment of great articles on race
#246 Apr 30, 2020 #241: The Kitchen Is Closed – Thank you for opening today’s issue, loyal readers, and I hope that all of you are holding up. Is thi
#245 Apr 23, 2020 #240: Childhood In An Anxious Age – Happy Thursday, loyal readers, and thank you for opening today’s issue, whether this is your first or
#244 Apr 18, 2020 VIP #5: Back To My Roots? 🌲 – Hi VIPs! This morning, I remembered why I renamed this newsletter The Highlighter three years ago. (L
#243 Apr 16, 2020 #239: On Anger, Autism, and Blackness – Happy Thursday, loyal readers! I wish you health, safety, and plenty of reading in these strange and
