Sue Rorke

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