The famous Canadian psychologist, public speaker, and journalist Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, The Tipping Point) has a podcast. Called “Revisionist History,” it aims to give the past a second chance. More specifically, it takes something widely accepted—an event, controversy, book, person, phenomenon—and examines it from a completely different perspective. I was introduced to this podcast through…
Fights over crayon colors and who has the larger muffin eventually shift to whispered planning of pranks on parents. There would be more emotional arguments and dirtier jokes shared, and a deeper understanding and a strengthened bond would ideally result from them. The relationship between siblings is unique, fascinating, and inherently powerful in the sense…
Between the World and Me is a letter from father to son. Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote it to his own child, Samori Coates, resolving to hide nothing about the lifelong burden he would have to carry as a black man living in America: the constant fear, violence, and injustice. “The struggle is really all I have…