I picked up a button about a decade ago with a quote attributed to Dorothy Day on it: “If you have two coats, you have stolen one from the poor.” I loved this saying, loved the strength of conviction, the easy black-and-white application...

My family planted ourselves in the most diverse neighborhood in America. We were thrilled as only white people can be, gentrifiers in every sense of the word. But things change when you allow your neighbors’ experience to shape you...