ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

Happy Together

By Gaylon Ferguson — 2011

When we stop focusing on ourselves, we begin to see that our happiness is dependent on the happiness of all beings. Gaylon Ferguson examines the political, social, and environmental implications.

Read on www.lionsroar.com

FindCenter Post-Image

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

Quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
15:03

How Race and Gender Reinforce Economic Inequality

Prof. Marlene Kim says her research has revealed that African-American women face triple penalties from race and gender bias, and the combination of those two.

Video
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone? Economics researcher Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests.

Book
Heather McGhee
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
07:14

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Discusses the Importance of Athletes Using Their Voices | The Arena

NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares how he first became a social activist during the historic Cleveland Summit and the importance of today’s generation of athletes to continue bringing issues of social injustice to the forefront.

Video
Muhammad Ali
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope

For a long time, Carmelo Anthony’s world wasn’t any larger than the view of the hoopers and hustlers he watched from the side window of his family’s first-floor project apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Book
Carmelo Anthony
2025
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Race Matters

First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr.

Book
Cornel West
2017
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
04:52

How America’s Justice System Is Rigged Against the Poor

There are invisible cages that extend far beyond prison walls. Every year, more than 600,000 individuals are freed from America’s jails and prisons.

Video
2017
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

In this “thought-provoking and important” (Library Journal) analysis of state-sanctioned violence, Marc Lamont Hill carefully considers a string of high-profile deaths in America—Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and others—and incidents of gross negligence...

Book
Marc Lamont Hill
2017
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.

Book
Angela Y. Davis (Authors), Cornel West (Preface)
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid...

Book
Isabel Wilkerson
2020
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Activism/Service