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do you have last minute gifts to get?

I’m not a big shopper. I can’t remember the last time John and I exchanged gifts at Christmas, and we don’t buy a lot for the kids, either. So perhaps I’m the least likely person to compile a gift-giving guide. But when I do give a gift, it’s with intention, so perhaps that makes up for quantity. So, with all that in mind, here are my suggestions for your gift-giving this season:

The Giving Keys company not only provides a beautiful gift, but the gift keeps on giving, because the company emp...

2017 Hard Conversations Book Club Reading List Announced

I’ve just announced the 2017 reading list for the Hard Conversations Book Group. Feel free to join us! The book group is free and we meet by teleconference call the 3rd Sunday of each month from 8-9pm Eastern to discuss that month’s book.

Our focus in 2017 is on books written by women of color:

January – Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
February – The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
March – Birdie by Tracey Lindbergh
April – Zami by Audre Lorde
May – You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Thi...

37days of Activism

You wanted to know what role you would have played in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s? Now’s your time to find out.

You were shocked by the outcome of the U.S. Presidential election, and the aftermath of racial violence.

You didn’t know this kind of racism still existed in the U.S.

You don’t know whether to wear a safety pin to show you’re an ally, or not.

People are shaming you for not knowing, not acting, not doing the right things.

It’s all confusing and heart-sickening. But your he...