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Civil Rights Tours The civil rights movement stands out as one of the most remarkable and meaningful in American history as African-Americans rallied for social, legal, political, and cultural changes putting an end t…
Chloe Anthony Wofford "Toni" Morrison February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019 Toni Morrison died on Monday, August 5, 2019. Our cohort gathered on Wednesday, August 7, for a three-day intensive. With such a seismic loss, we shifted our…
The Big Problem of Racism In a post on cnn.com from November, 2015, Catherine E. Shoichet reports on a CNN and Kaiser Family Foundation poll showing that half of Americans — 49% — say racism is a big problem in society t…
On Giving and the Good Hindu Wisdom Keep on giving — your time, your energy, your talent, your resources. Everything is a trust given to you to be used for the benefit of others. — Eknath Easwaran, meditation tea…
Exercising First Amendment Rights "People have the right to protest — that’s what democracy is all about." — Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State Protests have always been part of movements for justice in…
The Whitney Plantation Forty-six miles west of New Orleans, near Wallace, Louisiana, in St. John the Baptist Parish situated on the west bank of the Mississippi River, you will find The Whitney Plantation. It was establis…
Skyrocketing Prison Population Devastating U.S. Society On Commondreams.org Sarah Lazare shares the dire impact of four decades of massive imprisonments in the United States. This report by the National Research Council (an arm of the National Academy of…
Loyalty to Collective Breathing: A Yoga of World Solidarity I feel fairly certain — as certain as I can feel — that when George Floyd couldn’t breathe, God couldn’t breathe either. What I mean is that George Floyd’s gasping for air was shared by an…
Locked Up and Locked Out On April 11, 2014, the New America Foundation held a program titled "Locked Up and Locked Out: Securing a Second Chance at Economic Citizenship for Ex-Offenders." Monica Potts was on a panel which r…
A Prayer for Ending Police Racism and Violence News: An article by Kate Stringer in YesMagazine.org spells out a crisis: "After being pulled over for a busted taillight on July 6, Philando Castile informed a Minnesota police officer at his wi…