While you were sleeping

These are the first hand accounts of the human cost of greed, corruption or bigotry in our country. We are not post-racial, women are not equals, homosexuals are still reviled, corporations ruin lives and justice is sometimes not only blind, but deaf and mute as well. We have a lot of work to do and it’s important that you know you are not working alone. Others share your pain and now they are willing to share it with the world. 

From reader Shana Tucciarone:

I have a story to share….

I have a biracial background. ( my father is African American, and my mother is Caucasian). Now being raised in a biracial home, and with a family of many different ethnicities, race wasn’t a focal point of our lives. We grew up not thinking about skin color. When I was 7, my cousins and brothers and I were going to the public swimming…