I started this blog (though I hadn’t yet published it) and wrote my “Welcome” post in the time before America was burning, or at least in the time before America was literally burning. But I do not wish to publish my “Welcome” and my thoughts on other matters without first acknowledging and honoring the suffering and heartbreak in the African American community in the U.S.A. We need to do better, to listen harder, to learn more, to practice empathy, to change.

Please listen to this powerful song, “I just wanna live” by the young gospel singer, Keedron Bryant.