May 2021

Kate is a white woman in her 40’s. Her father is elderly and frail. He is at the point where, physically, he is not safe to live at home alone, but he is refusing to move in with either of his children or leave his home. His daughter is there a few times per week, […]

James is a lovely 48 year old black man. He recently took his elderly mother shopping at BJ’s. While approaching the store in the parking lot, he saw a young white man pushing a collection of shopping carts. A white woman called to the man and asked for a carriage. The employee stopped pushing them,

Yvonne is a BIPOC nurse at a level one trauma center. One morning she came in for her shift and was getting report from a night nurse before starting her day. Another nurse had floated to the unit the previous night. Yvonne did not know this nurse. They had never met or spoken to each

In this installment of Sidewalk Stories, we share some of these everyday events, these short, disheartening, experiences… The everyday racism. And for those of us who do not have to live with this everyday, try to imagine how exhausting it would be to handle this, day in and day out – to be treated this