Judgment can be one of the most damaging weapons in a relationship. It tells your partner that it’s not okay to be themselves. This builds resentment in them and will eventually corrode even the most intimate relationships. Even if your relationship survives the corrosive effect of judgment, it still suffers. This article explains how your emotional triggers…
The language we speak influences and shapes our perception of the world
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, also known as linguistic relativity, suggests that the language we speak influences and shapes our perception of the world. It posits that different languages can lead speakers to think differently about the same reality. A question was recently raised: How does the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis work when it comes to Third-Culture Kids? Third-Culture…
The first Black ‘Peanuts’ character finally gets his origin story in animated special
“A Franklin special is really overdue,” said Craig Schulz, the co-writer of the show and son of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, in an interview with Morning Edition. Charles Schulz first drew Franklin in 1968 after receiving a letter from a white Los Angeles schoolteacher named Harriet Glickman. She reached out to Schulz following the assassination…
HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) Executive Director Marybeth Gasman and Senior Research Associate Levon T. Esters are proud to release a new book examining the role Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play in empowering Black students, fostering economic development, building community, and mentoring leaders and activists. HBCU: The Power of Historically Black…
Teachers of Color Face Unique Challenges. Here Are Some of Them (Opinion)
These invisible and often unpaid tasks took various forms. For instance: Black male educators taking on roles as disciplinariansLatinx educators acting as language translatorsCreating and curating culturally responsive, anti-racist and socially just curricular materialsServing on equity committees and taking leadership positionsMentoring racially marginalized studentsBridging the cultural gap as culture translators and mediatorsIn addition to the…
Why Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is Relevant To Human Rights Today
In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this Untitled skull painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion. In a single painting, he would use his instinctive power of visual language to say everything he wanted to…
Have You Met The Etiquette Doctor?
Excerpt from an article by Marybeth Gasman: Corbett believes that etiquette training is important, explaining, “Unfortunately, most youth do not exhibit good manners due to the lack of training at home. Parents may not be knowledgeable about etiquette, and K-12 schools no longer provide courses such as home economics to teach young people.” Corbett has…
Shaping Tomorrow: The HBCU Legacy and American Democracy
New #VaryingViewpoints episode! 🎙️ 🗣️ Learn about the transformative potential of #highereducation exemplified by the #HBCU tradition! 👏 🎓 In this episode of the Varying Viewpoints podcast series, we invited John Silvanus Wilson Jr., author of Hope and Healing: Black Colleges and the Future of American Democracy and Visiting Lecturer at Morgan State University. John shares his background…
Incarcerated students graduate from top ten university for first time in history
ABC News’ Alex Perez speaks to recent graduates from the Northwestern University Prison Education Program about how the program has impacted their lives. WATCH:
Texas A&M just showed us that schools have the money to pay student-athletes
You can’t keep saying there isn’t enough to compensate players when there’s always enough to buy out bad, fired coaches Fisher’s failure on the sidelines looks even worse when you compare him to the man he replaced, Kevin Sumlin — Texas A&M’s first Black head football coach. Sumlin was 51-26 during his tenure with the…
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