April Issue:
Discrimination
This month, our focus is on the topic of discrimination of all kinds, including race, sex, age, gender identity, ethnicity and personal data.
Manny Frishberg asks
whether the recent unrest
following tragic shootings
in the St. Louis suburbs will
mark a new chapter in American
race relations in Has Ferguson
Sparked a New Civil Rights
Movement?
A poet known as “Conner”
offers a searing tribute to her
mother's strength with
it’s what we do: a homily
for my mother.
Writer Joanne Dyer delves
into the science behind
unconscious racial bias in
Are Your Neurons Making
You a Bigot?
Esther Jones questions the
continued fuss over same-sex
marriage laws with a little
history lesson in Traditional
Marriage – Since When?
Donald Mazzella reminds
us that ethnicity was just
as virulent a form of
discrimination in the 19th
century as race is today,
with Current Immigrant
Groups Not The First to
Be Discriminated Against.
while Patricia Vaccarino
tells over-sharing, sensitive
men “Enough already!”
in the workplace with
Do Men Really Have
Feelings?... And If So,
Who Cares?!
Our PR for People® Ground Reporters have also reported on personal cases of discrimination i. In New York City, Tracy Kaler updates us on Rev. Carmen Hernandez and her continuing efforts to defend the rights of the LGBTQ community in The Bronx, with Fighting the Good Fight. From Medford, N.J., Cindy Weinstein reveals her first awareness of race as a child in Reflections, while Brittany “Bella” Graham, of Los Angeles, offers a poem about African-Americans and their relationship to the police in Cop-per Bullets. Kindra Foster, in Nebraska, chronicles a male quilter’s quest to break into a female-dominated business, in Male Quilter Breaks Gender Stitching Barriers. And Dean Landsman, from New York, does his best to both scare us and then reassure us about the dangers of internet identity theft in Beware of Dog Bytes.
– Randy Woods, managing editor