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September 16, 2020 By Amy Banks

How Can White Folks Join the Fight to End Systemic Racism?

Racism lives in our minds and bodies—to end it, we must first find and feel it.  By Amy Banks MD Like so many in our country, I am sick—not from the coronavirus, but by the ways systemic racism continues to shackle and kill people of color in our country and by the ways in which too many white Americans continue to […]

Filed Under: racism Tagged With: Amy Banks, Fighting Time, Isaac Knapper, systemic racism

July 6, 2020 By Melva Graham

My path to racial healing…

by Melva Graham If my path to racial healing is any indication, we have a long way to go as a country. In March, Pact Press published my debut essay collection Your Black Friend Has Something to Say. In June—within two days of one another—as I mourned the loss of George Floyd and Black Lives […]

Filed Under: Pact Press authors Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Melva Graham, Your Black Friend Has Something To Say

January 7, 2019 By William Alton

William L. Alton and The Tragedy of Being Happy

People ask me sometimes where I get my stories. It always catches me a little off-guard. I like to have my stories stand on their own. I like it when the world I have created for the novel is real enough that I disappear. The problem with this, is that I tend use skills I […]

Filed Under: anthologies Tagged With: The Tragedy of Being Happy, William L. Alton

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