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I was born in abject poverty to Oklahoma sharecroppers, one of the most viciously exploited groups of people in American history.  In brutal honesty, my family is horribly scarred and crippled as the landowners treated them less than their animals.  My father has not healed from the trauma and abuse.  Growing up we heard how […]

I had a unique experience with racism within the Catholic Church from a young age. Growing up, Catholicism was not only part of my life, but my community.  In the early years of my life, I remember thinking the Catholic Church was a place of happiness and a diverse beautiful faith. As I got older, […]

At age 14 in 1956 I stepped on the hard line of separation between the races. At age 15 I crossed it. At 14, I was selected to leave the fully segregated, supportive community which had nurtured me in Baltimore to continue to desegregate City College, one of Baltimore’s top two male public high schools. […]