A Story About a Summer of Lessons Learned
By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Lisa Leshaw image by rawpixel It never occurred to me that Sariyah, my very best friend on the entire planet, was black. Her skin was darker than mine until at least mid-August of each year when mine became the browner of the two with a little solar support. Perhaps on some level... I realized the difference in our coloring. I just never thought it amounted to anything important or meant that Sariyah would be treated any differently on that basis. Especially since every girl in our 6th-grade class spent [...]
