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Alice Walker: Writing What’s Right

By Megan Labrise — 2012

The author of The Color Purple (and one of America’s most censured writers) tells Megan Labrise about finding wisdom in the songs of ancestors, why her acclaimed novel won’t be translated into Hebrew, and approaching writing in a priestly state of mind.

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The Year I Gave Up White Comfort: An Ode to My White “Friends” on Being Better to Black Womxn

This past year I not only stood unapologetically in the full and complete truth of my identity but also voiced that truth, my truth, aloud to all those closest to me. Including a lot of White people.

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Rachel Ricketts
2019
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Obama’s People and the African Americans: The Language of Othering

To the list of identities Black people in America have assumed or been asked to, we can now add, thanks to this presidential election season, “Obama’s people” and “the African Americans.”

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john a. powell
2016
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john a. powell: Opening to the Question of Belonging

“Race is a little bit like gravity,” john powell says: experienced by all, understood by few. He is a refreshing, redemptive thinker who counsels all kinds of people and projects on the front lines of our present racial longings.

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Krista Tippett
2018
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The Rev. angel Kyodo williams to Champion Liberation from Racism in Interfaith Lecture

The Rev. angel Kyodo williams believes that addressing racism in the United States can lead to the sense of belonging the American dream promised, but never fully delivered on.

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Chris Clements
2019
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How to Make Love, Not Bigotry

An ad campaign is selling clothes and challenging bigotry in America.

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Valerie Kaur
2013
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Sikhs Deserve the Dignity of Being a Statistic

A sea of reporters have asked many Sikh leaders and activists to quantify how many Sikhs had been targeted in hate crimes and murders since Sept. 11, 2001. Although I have helped chronicle hate crimes against the Sikh American community for more than a decade, I could not tell them.

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Valerie Kaur
2012
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‘Well, What Do You Mean, We Can’t Join the Klan?’

Inside the bizarre, secret meeting between Malcolm X and the Ku Klux Klan.

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Les Payne, Tamara Payne
2020
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‘What I Know’: A Black Woman’s Words

“Being Black overrides everything for me. Nothing is as thunderous in my life as racism. It seems to eclipse everything. It’s the repetitiveness of it. And the fact that it comes from every corner and nook.”

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Kristen Wise
2020
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A Buddhist Call to Action Against the Suffering of Racism

Buddhist teachings are grounded in principles of interdependence, non-separation, and reverence for life, supported by practices of mindfulness and compassion.

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Tara Brach
2016
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Racism Is the Temptation White People Have Yet to Overcome

We've done our share of racism while we blame it on the racist generations that went before us. Maybe just apologizing for our own sins against a people would be a start.

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Joan Chittister
2020
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