Be in touch with your spiritual soul.
The heroic woman gazing out to sea with her torch held high invokes the longing in the human heart “to breathe free,” the longing for common life and purpose, the longing for a human embrace. Words carved in stone give voice to the power and promise sculpted into her face and pose. “Give me your […]
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There’s a long and hilarious history (dating back to Aristotle) of adults complaining about new trends and worrying about kids. I don’t want to be that guy. I’m enthusiastic about the whole world moving online and the benefits of remote work. I believe we can push forward as a society, gradually getting better and kinder. But I also […]
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What language do you speak? What is your religion? What holidays do you celebrate? What is your racial identification? What is your ethnic identity? What is your culture? Culture is that which shapes us; it shapes our identity and influences our behavior. Culture is our “way of being,” more specifically, it refers to the shared […]
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Recently, several members of a group calling itself “Respect the Flag” were sentenced to prison for terrorizing guests at the birthday party of an 8-year-old African-American girl in Georgia. Pointing a shotgun, they yelled racial slurs and death threats at guests, including children. It wasn’t an isolated incident. According to a recent study, there are at […]
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The art of unhooking from your stories allows you to see what’s in front of you rather than seeing what you’re looking to see. The practice of mindful looking starts with unburdening ourselves of the stories we’re constantly telling ourselves, says Diana Winston, director of mindfulness education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center. It’s the difference between “looking,” […]
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When we turn our backs on truth,facing the truth can set us free. American reality revolvesaround black and white. How often do we hearbrown yellow red peoplementioned in a newscast ? How often are the wordsblack and white used,referring to peoplein this country? If you have no inklingwhat truth I mean here,turn and open your […]
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Maggie Lena Walker was one of the most important Black businesswomen in the nation, and today too few people have heard of her. Maggie Lena Walker was the first Black woman in the nation to organize and run a bank. And she did it in the segregated South in the former capital of the Confederacy, […]
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It’s not an understatement to describe the past year’s events as historical, and particularly for Black Americans. The nation elected its first Black vice president, a woman, and a historically Black university graduate, and Georgia sends its first Black senator to the Capitol. (Both of these realities were possible through the tireless organizing efforts of […]
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No one has played a greater role in helping all Americans know the black past than Carter G. Woodson, the individual who created Negro History Week in Washington, D.C., in February 1926. Woodson was the second black American to receive a Ph.D. in history from Harvard—following W.E.B. Du Bois by a few years. To Woodson, […]
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If a women’s movement advocates for the needs of only some women, is it really a women’s movement? If a social justice movement ignores the needs of its most marginalized groups, is it really fair to call it a fight for equality? That’s the premise behind intersectionality. Here’s an overview of what intersectionality is and […]
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