Deb Ewing | Project Race

Comments to Washington

Susan Graham2022-11-06T17:41:58+00:00November 6th, 2022|

Project RACE was recently invited by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to give our comments on adding a Multiracial category to federal forms, including the census. We had six Project RACE representatives on the conference call, and we did extremely well. Below are the arguments of Deb Ewing. You can find Mulatto on the 1890 US Census, along with Octoroon and Quadroon, to enumerate the percentage of a person’s mixed race. But in 1930 a person who was both black and white got written down as black, as was a person [...]

Essay for the Times

Susan Graham2022-07-18T13:03:27+00:00July 18th, 2022|

Deb Ewing, our Project RACE Grandparents president noted the quotation below and wrote an essay for the times. Niemöller is perhaps best remembered for the quotation1: First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one [...]

Happy Grandparents Day!

Susan Graham2021-09-12T13:37:57+00:00September 12th, 2021|

Come To Vegas – a Long-Distance Grandma “Come meet us in Las Vegas.” My daughter messaged me; she and my youngest grandson Ashton would be flying from Michigan to Vegas for six days. Alarms started pinging in my mind. COVID-19 loomed over everything. I’d been laid off for months and was using savings to pay the bills. Nobody was responding to my job applications. My daughter was taking my grandson on an airplane during a pandemic. To Las Vegas. “The flights are crazy cheap, Mom,” she said. It was true [...]

Announcement

Susan Graham2021-06-28T20:41:44+00:00June 28th, 2021|

YOU ANSWERED We recently asked for people to apply to become the President of our Project RACE Grandparents division. We got very lucky and many qualified people answered the call. We decided on Deb Ewing. Deb has been an active Project RACE member for many years, helping with several important projects and we are over the moon that she will lead our grandparents into the future. Take a look at Deb’s bio and picture on our website at Ewing Family Story on the front page of our site at projectrace.com [...]