Quote for Today: Desmond Tutu
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ―Desmond Tutu, …
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ―Desmond Tutu, …
Welcome our Featured Artist for the day, poet and writer Peggy Schimmelman. We are pleased to feature her poem “An Empty Tip Jar,” which reminds us of the unrecognized prejudices …
Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings. It is the key to ending deep inequality. We stigmatize and send to the margins people who …
Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I’ll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies …
We believed we were supposed to “cope” as best we could. As we talked, we realized the disability itself was not that big a deal for us. We had all …
Today’s focus is on the work of Norwegian born Deeyah Khan, and shows how the empathy behind her filmmaking is rooted in her own story. She is famous for Banaz: …
Titus Underwood is the Principal Oboe for the Nashville Symphony. You might assume that, as an artist with a highly educated and elite ensemble like a symphony, he wouldn’t encounter …
This short romantic film directed and written by Robin K. Johnson, who also stars, is a look at the voices that nag those in interracial relationships. Why do we celebrate …
“How to Translate a Joke” is a perceptive poem about how humor and comedy can be a vehicle for prejudice and a means of enforcing the status quo. The remarkable …
In honor of Juneteenth, Maya Angelou’s poem, “We Wear the Mask.” She was a masterful reader, dancing on the edge of emotion. May we all learn how to listen and …