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New eyes
Posted on March 9, 2025 1 Comment
March 9, 2025 When the wheels touched down in Baton Rouge on the evening of February 22nd, it marked my return from my second trip to DC in 2025. I had also been to Southeast Asia twice since the year began. While travel can bequeath “new eyes,” as Marcel Proust famously wrote, it can also […]
Getting the Word Passed to Me
Posted on February 20, 2022 Leave a Comment
20 February 2022 I’m nearing the end of How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Dr. Clint Smith. I heard of this book because the author was featured on the cover of the Harvard Graduate School of Education magazine this month. The book is narrative non-fiction and […]
Oliver S. Crocco 