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Hard-Learned, Successful Lessons in How to Help Humanity: Jacqueline Novogratz

By Steve Forbes — 2020

As the saying goes, good intentions are not enough; positive change comes from patience, persistence, a willingness to learn, genuine humility and an immense amount of hard work.

Read on www.forbes.com

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The Intersectionality Wars

When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.

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Jane Coaston
2019
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Foreign Aid Is Having a Reckoning

Today, a rising African middle class on a continent that is home to nearly two-dozen billionaires is challenging previous assumptions about foreign aid, from who donates money, to who should get paid to deliver aid, to whose metrics ought to be used to determine whether it was a success.

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The New York Times
2021
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The Legacy of Audre Lorde

There is this thing that happens, all too often, when a Black woman is being introduced in a professional setting. Her accomplishments tend to be diminished. The introducer might laugh awkwardly, rushing through whatever impoverished remarks they have prepared.

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Roxane Gay
2020
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Who Owns the Land?

No one disputes that decades ago local Indians were unfairly deprived of hundreds of thousands of acres that were guaranteed to them in perpetuity by solemn treaty; yet no one can agree about what should be done to correct that injustice today.

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Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris
1988
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Sonia Sanchez Speaks Truth to Power, Poetically [Interview]

A formalist with wide poetic range, Sanchez’s vast body of work includes poems that delve into themes that resonate with those who’ve known isolation’s dance.

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Penny Dickerson
2014
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Satish Kumar—Peace Activist

In a very special interview, Satish Kumar shares his greatest adventure, inspiration and how we can find connection with the Earth.

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Saiki Wellness
2020
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Radicalizing Yoga and Bringing Social Justice to the Mat

Yoga teacher and activist Michelle C. Johnson talks to Nonviolence Radio about her book “Skill In Action.”

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Stephanie Van Hook
2019
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What Makes Someone Humble

New research may identify the basic belief that makes people humble.

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Mark Leary
2019
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The Paradox of Humility

For years, every morning at five a.m. my mother-in-law, Rena Canipe, would crawl out of bed and awaken her husband Clyde. Donning track suits, they would climb into their old Volkswagen bus and head to the mall near their home in Lake Park, Florida.

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Everett Worthington
2007
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The Role of Humility at Work (and Why the Best Leaders Embrace It)

Part of the reason humility tends to be overlooked in the workplace is because it is frequently misconstrued as a “weak” attribute. We have been led to believe that people who are humble are easily bulldozed by others and aren’t willing to stick up for themselves.

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John Eades
2019
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