By Marie Beecham — 2020
To truly achieve an equitable, fair, and greener future, we must defend Black lives and our climate future, together.
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CLEAR ALL
How do you celebrate and teach the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., both on the holiday that celebrates his birth, and all year long?
After a life filled with transformation, Malcolm X found himself in February 1965 in the throes of yet another.
Instead of relying on systems that have consistently failed the most vulnerable in the protest community, Mullan encourages a shift toward community-based care.
A growing number of activists and commentators say that “people of color” no longer works. The central point of Black Lives Matter, after all, has been to condemn the mortal threat of anti-Black racism and name the particular experiences of the Black community.
Thurman taught King Jr. that spiritual cultivation was necessary to take on the intense work of social activism.
JoAnna Hardy, Co-Founder of the Meditation Coalition in Los Angeles, talks about bringing wisdom and compassion into the fight for racial equality.
People of color are dealing with racism all the time, in large and small ways, and even dealing with racism in healthcare, even dealing with racism in therapy.
The United States is going through a national examination of conscience on the question of race, and the Latino community is no exception.
“Just a reminder: the system in what is currently known as the US isn’t ‘broken.’ It was designed by male white supremacist slaveowners on stolen Indigenous land to protect their interests. It’s working as it was designed.” ~Dr. Adrienne Keene (Cherokee)
A year after the murder of George Floyd and a summer in which businesses declared themselves to stand for racial justice, many of those promises remain unfulfilled.