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Imagination and Creativity & social justice

Below are the best resources we could find on Imagination and Creativity and social justice.

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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries.

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A Conversation with Alice Walker

The bestselling author discusses her role as a global citizen and her connection with nature, history, and activism

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Cristina Ibarra, Documentary Filmmaker | 2021 MacArthur Fellow

MacArthur Fellow Cristina Ibarra is crafting nuanced narratives about borderland communities, often from the perspective of Chicana and Latina youth.

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The Power of Disability: 10 Lessons for Surviving, Thriving, and Changing the World

This book reveals that people with disabilities are the invisible force that has shaped history. They have been instrumental in the growth of freedom and birth of democracy. They have produced heavenly music and exquisite works of art. They have unveiled the scientific secrets of the universe.

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William Blake, Radical Abolitionist

Blake’s works offer an alternative to the failures of the Enlightenment, which couldn’t muster a consistent argument for abolition.

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The Fire This Time—The Legacy of James Baldwin

His work fell foul of civil-rights-era binary racial and sexual politics but, as a new film shows, now Baldwin’s ideas are used to explain everything from Trump to Black Lives Matter

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Street Art Activism: What White People Call Vandalism

Street artists could not be more different demographically than the über-rich who control who enters and exits their curations. If you are a street artist, there’s a higher chance of you being low-income, a person of color, female, or part of the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Continuing the Conversation: How Will Art Solve Problems?

Understanding the role art plays in solving problems prompts us to consider the parameters we use to define problems, the metrics we use to assess whether a problem is solved, and the elasticity of the boundaries around what we consider “art.

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Arts of the Possible: Adrienne Rich on Writing, Capitalism, Freedom, and How Silence Fertilizes the Human Imagination

“The impulse to create begins—often terribly and fearfully—in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence.”

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Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance

What is Pathological Demand Avoidance and how does it manifest among the neurodiverse? Understanding demand avoidance can completely transform the way you look at a child.

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