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411 Focus

I look around, and I don't recognize fear in others' eyes... Am I the only one who's scared?
As I got older, the term "colored" became offensive, and by the time I was a teen ... I was a "Negro"
I will forever be grateful to a woman who leaned into my world and told it like it was
I hate bad grammar... I hate "acceptance" of poor language ...

Archived focus Headlines

I look around, and I don't recognize fear in others' eyes... Am I the only one who's scared? - 03/22/2019

As I got older, the term "colored" became offensive, and by the time I was a teen ... I was a "Negro" - 02/23/2019

I will forever be grateful to a woman who leaned into my world and told it like it was - 02/08/2019

I hate bad grammar... I hate "acceptance" of poor language ... - 01/31/2019

In those days, nothing -- except what my folks couldn't produce themselves -- came in a box, and few things from the two grocery stores "in town" - 12/29/2018

Let's get back to caring about the planet. Let's teach our children to recycle like we did a few years back - 12/15/2018

The gift that keeps on giving... It's good grammar - 12/05/2018

When I was in the classroom, I sometimes raised the wrath of my students when their questions were met with questions. - 11/19/2018

She seemed the perfect grandmother, one that just stepped out of the pages of the books I'd read in grade school - 11/02/2018

The woman, perhaps his mother, had less than a child's dose of patience, and a vocabulary just as deficient - 10/07/2018

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Other Focus Headlines

In those days, nothing -- except what my folks couldn't produce themselves -- came in a box, and few things from the two grocery stores "in town"

Let's get back to caring about the planet. Let's teach our children to recycle like we did a few years back

The gift that keeps on giving... It's good grammar