Capital “Z” v. lower case “z” zionism. — Sounds crazy, but there I was sitting in tent big enough for 20 with red ornate rugs spread across the sandy desert floor in the middle of nowhere Saudi Arabia. People told me I was crazy for going but I decided to visit the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by myself…

Elevating voices of love over the noise of hate. — Friends know that I’m always on a mission to bring people of different backgrounds, races, and ethnicities together. I know I can’t save the world and that there will always be some people who choose conflict over peace and love, but every soul touched moves the world toward a better…

America owes much of its success to Black people — On July 4, 1776, America declared its independence and became a self-described democratic nation with a simple motto: All men are created equal Yet native tribes who had already lived in North America for over 10,000 years (not a typo) had little rights and were not allowed to vote in…

Dear Jew Hater, My father was born in 1945, the year the U.S. and its allies defeated Hitler and the Nazis. Like many Jewish families at the time, the slaughter, rape, enslavement and torture of millions of the only 16.6 …

We can fight racism while discouraging victim mentality. — Ever since I moved to Colorado in 2011, I’ve heard an uninterrupted chorus of people who claim that they experience more conflict when the planet Mercury is in what’s called retrograde. This year, Mercury is in retrograde for a month starting December 2, 2023. It’s when the planet closest to…

The secret ingredient of systemic racism — I was just a year out of law school, working for a prestigious law firm in St. Louis, when one of my bosses asked me to work on a case involving family farmers suing a corporate hog farm. I’m Jewish and don’t eat pork, so I found the assignment a…

If we want to combat racism, let’s end “bystanderism.” — Nearly every morning from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., I head to my favorite coffee shop in Denver to write. Sometimes with our new 25-week-old Bernedoodle, Gucci, by my side. For anyone wanting to write a book, this is actually the best advice I can give. Make an appointment with…

The finally told story of Bayard Rustin. — There are a lot of reasons many people don’t know the names of Black civil rights giants aside from Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. Some were killed before they made their mark, like Reverend George Lee; voter registration organizers Lamar Smith and Herbert Lee; and young, energetic civil…

Appreciate good things happening, too! — Like any issue, we can get so immersed in the depth of our fight for racial justice or any other issue, we have trouble letting in the light. Or even the lighter. The second we see something on the news or witness what appears to be an unjust moment, we’re…