Public Voices

The OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowship is a national initiative to dramatically increase the public impact of our nation’s top underrepresented thinkers, and to ensure our ideas help shape the important conversations of our age.

Wading in the Waters of the Trinity River: A Womanist Perspective

As a writer, theologian and womanist preacher, I am fascinated by water towers. Anytime I…

The Breath

I (pause gasping for air) want to (pause gasping for air) check out (pause gasping…

Question Your Surroundings

The tall pile of shredded roofing shingles was encroaching on Marsha Jackson’s property. The pile…

Why Edward Blum is No Friend to Asian Americans

Harvard University recently announced a record proportion of Asian American undergraduate students in its admitted…