by Tom DeWolf | Nov 28, 2011 | Books, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege
To understand one significant aspect of the legacy of slavery and its profound impact today, one needs to look no further than the “criminal justice” system in the United States. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name, Douglas A....
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 7, 2011 | Books, Reviews, Healthy Living, Politics
Inequality — literally — is killing us. In my post The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! a few months back I expressed my frustration with the inability of those in positions of power in Washington, D.C. to compromise on our national debt, the deficit,...
by Tom DeWolf | Jul 8, 2011 | Books, Reviews
More than fifteen years ago I walked from my office to a local elementary school once each week to read with a little first grade boy for half an hour to help increase his reading skills. That little boy is now a bright young man in college. When he found out that I...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 14, 2011 | Books, Reviews, Coming to the Table
It turns out that the stories about Thomas Jefferson I learned while growing up don’t exactly tell the whole story. Funny how that happens with “history” sometimes… lots of times. Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, was the...
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 5, 2011 | Books, Reviews, Race, Oppression, Privilege
UPDATE: for another thoughtful perspective on this subject, I encourage you to read my cousin James DeWolf Perry’s post, Censorship, the ‘n-word,’ and Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Mark Twain defined a “classic” book as one “which people...
by Tom DeWolf | Dec 10, 2010 | Books, Reviews
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is one of the best books I read this year. You can read my review from July here. I just learned that the author, Rebecca Skloot, has been named one of the “Five Surprising Leaders of 2010” by the Washington Post. My...
