By Stacey Patton
When I finished the full story, I came to the surprising conclusion that this latest interaction between a white teacher and black child’s hair just might not be a racist incident after all.

By Stacey Patton
All 36 of these schoolchildren, mostly black and a few Latinos, were killed in the streets of Chicago during the past nine months.  They were shot, stabbed, beaten with bats, kicked to death, burned and run over by cars.