Thanks for Wayne Hare’s article on Portland segregation (“ ‘Alienated’ in Portland,” HCN, 5/28/18). The process by which blacks are segregated and redlined is common everywhere. Our church here in Louisville, Kentucky, recently hosted a four-part series on systemic racism. We learned there that the same thing happened here — and happens everywhere. I had […]
Joy Jamison
Posted inSeptember 3, 2010: Migration
Not all doom and gloom
Since I was in the midst of reading Bill McKibben’s Eaarth, I immediately turned to Ray Ring’s article on Tom Bell in your Aug. 30 issue. You included quotes from the “Doomsday Chorus,” including Eaarth. Yes, the first two parts of McKibben’s book are pretty grim, according to his own analysis. He explains very clearly […]