Feb 17, 2020 | A Day In My Life
My name is Carrie McFarland. If it wasn’t for my Gift, no one in Aronsville, Indiana would ever have noticed a 16-year-old Negro girl like me. Not with the gangsters, the bootleggers, and the Ku Klux Klan burning crosses all over town. It’s 1920 and the start of a...
Aug 23, 2016 | A Day In My Life
My name is Bertie Bigelow, and I am the choir director at Metro Community College. The school where I teach is located in an African-American neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. I wear designer suits to work, keep my attitude professional, and try not to...