A Little Black Girl Floating on the Tides of History

You've heard of Brown v. Board of Education? She helped pave the way. Or, more accurately, she helped us swim there. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

WHEN I RECEIVED MY BLANK CLAY MASK from the Fort Collins Museum of Art, it immediately began speaking to me.

“I am a little Black girl,” the mask said. Then she asked: “Do you know my story?”

My immediate response was: “I don’t, and anyway, are you sure I’m the right guy to tell it?”

I mean: Haven’t old white guys been old-w…