Author Archives: wellread

I wandered from room to room in the dark chapel. The decorations were taken down, the chairs stacked, and trash emptied. The building was returned to it’s serene state of readiness, prepared for the congregations of worshipers that would come the next morning. The evening had been a success. The food had all been cooked […]

This week I wrapped up reading The New Jim Crow at the invitation of my cousin. It explores the current bias in incarceration rates among black males in America. I very much didn’t want to believe that racism on an institutional scale still existed. I mean, it’s illegal, how could it? The book painted a […]