The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter

Aug 24, 2017 | Interviews

In a letter to his baby grandson, Bill Lazarre wrote that “unfortunately, despite the attempts by your grandpa and many others to present you with a better world, we were not very successful.” Born in 1902 amid the pogroms in Eastern Europe, Lazarre dedicated his life...

Where Do They Keep All The White People?

Jan 26, 2017 | Essays

I try to rise up each time the pits of Trump fears and anger draw me down. Many people speak of the tangle of old fears and new, past traumatic times bleeding into these times now, like a ruined watercolor painting — liquid stress muddying what needs above all...

Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness

Sep 18, 2016 | Press Releases

Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons – Jane Lazarre “An important affirmation of a white woman’s love of her Black sons. Jane Lazarre, warrior mom, has crossed over.” – Alice Walker “A beautifully written, deeply thoughtful journey into...

Hoarding: A Story

Oct 18, 2015 | Stories

In the last years before her death, Zilla’s mother had become a hoarder. Always a lover of objects – furniture, clothes, radios, televisions, dishes – now those objects owned her three small rooms. With Nathan dead for five years, his places were the first to become...

Jane Lazarre, On the Problems of Breathing in America

Feb 15, 2015 | Stories

“On Having Trouble Breathing,” published in TomDispatch and reprinted in Salon, Mother Jones, The Nation and many other venues on line. This same essay, entitled “Once White in America,” is forthcoming in 2916 in the collection Our Black Sons...