By Melissa Guida-Richards — 2021
My parents successfully passed me off as a dark-skinned Italian for 19 years of my life.
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For a kid from a disadvantaged home or community, landing at an exclusive college can be dislocating, oppressive, even suffocating.
This is me, 90% of the time. The other 10% is often filled with performance anxiety and unrealistic standards of perfection.
Netflix and the BBC will work together, in an unprecedented move, to promote disabled creatives on and off screen.
Plenty of people love to describe the world of athletics in utopian terms, using words such as “colorblind” and “open-minded” and “meritocracy.” They’re not wrong to regard their realm as better than the so-called real world.
Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.
More and more young people in England are growing up in the care system. We need to make it easier for people to adopt.
Mona Polacca, Havasupai/Hopi, spoke at the Rights of Mother Earth Conference, about the foundation of life. From the first water inside the mother’s womb, to the prayer upon which life depends, Polacca spoke of the spirituality of life.
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Thirteen matriarchs from indigenous cultures are currently touring the world, promoting peace, unity, and a respect for nature. nicola Graydon meets one of them, Mona Polacca.
In my upbringing, I was taught that everyone is my relative. That we are all relatives. My parents and grandparents instilled this value since I was a child and I notice that, without question, it helps me to see the value in each person and living thing.
Psychologist Rick Hanson discusses how to strengthen our capacity for wisdom, peace, and enlightenment.