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  • Educate Yourself, Ignite Change: Angry Black Grandma Esquire’s Must-Read Reviews

    Looking to understand the complexities of race, diversity, and equity? Angry Black Grandma Esquire offers insightful and engaging reviews of books, movies, TV shows, and other media that shed light on these crucial issues. Some are old. Some are new. Some are good; others are not worth the time. Some are explicitly about diversity; others

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  • Educate Yourself, Ignite Change: Angry Black Grandma Esquire’s Must-Read Reviews

    Looking to understand the complexities of race, diversity, and equity? Angry Black Grandma Esquire provides insightful and engaging reviews of books, movies, TV shows, and other media that illuminate these crucial issues. Some are old. Some are new. Some are good; others are not worth the time. Some are explicitly about diversity; others are tangentially

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  • Rants and Raves

    Rants and Raves

    Rave: Affordable Medications for Seniors: Key ChangesLate last year, one of my doctors prescribed a medication. The medication was going to cost me an $800 a month copay. I told her I couldn’t swing that amount within my budget, so she prescribed a lesser expensive, lesser effective medication.At the beginning of this year, two prescription

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  • The True Taste of Passover: Empathy in a Divided World

    I missed the Passover Seder this year. I had just gotten out of the hospital, and I decided being around so many people so soon was probably not best for my health. But I really missed participating in the Seder with my family and friends. I missed the food: my daughter’s matzo ball soup and

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  • The Intersection of Race and Courtesy in Public Spaces

    There are two people standing in line. Him and me. I am in front. He is behind me. I have been waiting patiently for a single clerk to finish checking out a woman with a very large order. The young man had been behind me seconds. A second cashier steps behind a cash register. She

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  • We are in a period where many of our “leaders” discourage us from learning. They also encourage us to dismantle our formal and informal educational systems. Various corporations, media outlets, and governments are in a hurry to show their “anti-wokeness.” They do this by removing any trace of diversity efforts. There is a concerted effort

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