Check this site regularly for human rights-related news, updates, and more, collected from our Facebook page and elsewhere. First, a motivational thought: *** People’s words and actions can actually shape your brain — a neuroscientist explains how We humans are a social species. We live in groups. We take care of one another. We build civilizations….

BY CHRIS PEACOCK Stanford has been going to school on peer institutions’ pandemic experiences with bringing undergraduate students back to campus. Those lessons learned, as well as Stanford’s own after many graduate and professional students and a limited number of undergraduates returned this fall, are instructive as the university prepares for more undergraduates to return…

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded the Policy, Research, and Evaluation (PRE) Team at NYU Metro Center a grant of $500,000 to form a Racial Equity Peer Learning and Inquiry Community consisting of four organizations that develop parent leadership and organizing, according to the website of the Steinhardt School of Education. The organizations include: Parents…

Check this site regularly for human rights-related news, updates, and more, collected from our Facebook page and elsewhere. First, a motivational thought: *** Blaming Trump is too easy: This is us Via MSNBC … Eddie Glaude, the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, speaks to American culture, racism today and…

Using a straightforward, present-tense narrative and a diary-style format… this is a well-researched and accessible account of a precedent-setting protest.” – Publishers Weekly I met Larry Dane Brimner in the mid 90s at children’s book circles in the National Council of teachers of English and the International Literacy Association. Following his work has given me a…

Check this site regularly for human rights-related news, updates, and more, collected from our Facebook page and elsewhere. First, a motivational thought: *** Working for Racial Justice as a White Teacher Via The Atlantic … The traditional history of the civil-rights movement—the one that you find in most history textbooks—goes from 1954 to 1965. It…

Racial disparities in police killings increase with segregation. Does this mean segregation causes racialized police violence? Excerpt from an article by Miriam Axel-Lute Everyone should be safe and secure in their homes, their neighborhoods, and going about their lives, no matter who they are, what they look like, or where they have chosen to live. This…

Check this site regularly for human rights-related news, updates, and more, collected from our Facebook page and elsewhere. First, a motivational thought: *** Dennis Patterson Releases Book About Being Black in Idaho Via Idaho State Journal … In addition to personal examples in which Patterson experienced racial discrimination while living in Idaho Falls, “Black Pearl”…

Check this site regularly for human rights-related news, updates, and more, collected from our Facebook page and elsewhere. First, from Dr. Marybeth Gasman of Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions: *** Enough Already: Multiple Demands Causing Women To Abandon Workforce Via NPR … Here’s a stunning stat: Women are leaving the workforce at four times the…