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We can face the anti-DEI movement with intercultural skills training | Opinion

By Dale Caldwell
My parents were married in 1957 in Greensboro, North Carolina. My dad, the Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell, made reservations at the Mount Airy Lodge in the Pocono Mountains so they could spend their honeymoon in that beautiful resort. They drove eight hours, only to be turned away because the hotel did not accept Black guests. This emotional incident — combined with the racism and segregation my parents faced in the South — inspired my dad to be a foot soldier in the Civil Rights Movement. He participated in the Selma March, the March on Washington and Mississippi Freedom Summer. He also marched arm in arm with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in an effort to integrate the Boston Public Schools in 1965.