1: Journalist and author David Brooks was intimidated.

He was interviewing a ninety-three-year-old Black woman named LaRue Dorsey at a local diner in Waco, Texas.

A former teacher, LaRue “presented herself to me as a stern drill sergeant type, a woman, she wanted me to know, who was tough, who had standards, who laid down the law,” David Brooks writes in his book How to Know a Person.

“I … continue reading