The Pledge
The following pledge was created by James Varner who felt inspired to write this after the killing of James Earl Bird.
The Racist Stairs
Which step are you on?
Circumstances as well as attitudes will influence where you are;
there is no goal but awareness.
Terms for Multicultural Studies: Defining “Race,” “Ethnicity,” and “Nationality”
Race: An arbitrary and disputed classification of modern humans, usually based on a combination of various physical characteristics such as skin color, facial form, hair, or eye shape, … Modern racial classifications took hold in the nineteenth-century as “scientific” explanations for white supremacy and as justifications for colonial imperialism.
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth was born a slave named Isabella Baumfree in southeastern New York. The future abolitionist had several owners during her childhood—many of them cruel—before, at age 13, ending up the property of John Dumont. For 17 years, she worked for...
The SpiritHouse Project
The SpiritHouse Project is a national 501(c)3 non-profit organization that uses the arts, research, education, action, and spirituality to bring diverse peoples together to work for racial, economic, and social justice, as well as for spiritual maturity.
Chicago’s Million Dollar Blocks
Incarceration has had a devastating impact on low-income African-American neighborhoods.
Starting with the identification of “million-dollar blocks” in the early 2000s, researchers have been identifying “hot spots” for mass incarceration. From this analysis, an emerging consensus has developed: incarceration has had a devastating impact on low-income African-American neighborhoods. Meanwhile, more affluent and white areas have gone largely unscathed.