What Life on the Margins Feels Like

What Life on the Margins Feels Like

My campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is in an uproar over a video to promote the school’s homecoming that features no students of color.  We are one of the whitest schools in the country, but we are not unique in having a race problem. In that regard,...
We Need a Homes Guarantee — Now

We Need a Homes Guarantee — Now

I lost everything during the financial crisis. The government decided that the perpetrators of the crisis were “too big to fail” and bailed them out with our money.  I was not bailed out. Today, a decade after the crisis, I’m part of a grassroots-led effort to ensure...