Category: Race and Ethnicity in America
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An NPR profile looks at the life work of Robert Moses, a civil rights hero and educational visionary.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.–MLK
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Eboo Patel writes about a James Baldwin essay that helped guide him as an activist and writer.
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James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America's foremost writers. His essays, such as "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-twentieth-century America. A Harlem, New York, native, he primarily made his…
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Is marriage a personal commitment or a public institution? E. J. Graff explains how it is an intersection of both.
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The Supreme Court’s opinion in the DOMA case illustrates how it is the marriage equality side that truly has had the best interests of children at heart all along.
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If you take the time to watch one TED Talk this week, make it this one. Geoffrey Canada is an educational innovator, and in this video (part of which appeared on PBS) he makes a powerful argument for changing the way we think about public education. Canada knows how to help kids achieve great things:…
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April 16th marks the 50th anniversary of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” a passionate response by Dr. King to eight white clergymen who argued that racial segregation should be fought in the courts and not by protest in the streets.
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During Holocaust Remembrance week, Claire Conner looks back on the chilling experience of having a Holocaust denier in her parents’ living room.
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On the anniversary of King’s death, Eboo Patel looks at his work through the lens of interfaith cooperation.
