When I was younger, I remember going with my mother to our local welfare office and seeing the dozens of mothers with crying, hungry kids. I remember how rude and unempathetic the caseworkers were. I ...
Because the concepts of systematic racism and critical race theory are being shoved down our throats via Hollywood, public schools and the media, it’s time to teach the real racism in Colorado — ...
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs are only a "salve" to avoid tackling "the vestiges" of systemic racism, comedian Jon Stewart claimed on Sunday. Stewart appeared on CNN’s "Fareed Zakaria ...
“The hard truth is that the United States was built with white supremacy as its foundation and is still riddled with systemic injustice,” says Kirstyn Nimmo, founder and managing director of GOOD WORX ...
In a local clinical pastoral education program, I experienced the director as racially insensitive. She talked about how if she were an African American mother and had an African American son, she ...
I contemplated whether I was going to write this op-ed on my way back to campus from the Justice for Tyre Nichols protest, held in Washington Square Park on Jan. 28. My apprehension stemmed partly ...
Through my work as an educator, clinician, and researcher, I’ve learned that many people struggle with internalized oppression, or the process of maintaining negative beliefs about oneself or one’s ...
We often read, watch, and listen to stories to have fun. To be swept away into another place. Sometimes, that world bears a striking similarity to our own with an infusion of fantasy that is ...
New research published in Geohealth from a team of North Carolina State University researchers reports that counties with more socially vulnerable populations have an overall higher density of natural ...
The term race-based trauma, or race-based traumatic stress (RBTS), refers to the psychological, mental, and emotional injury caused by direct experiences of and exposure to race-based bias, ...
How is it that every February people still ask: “What about white history month?” For some reason—despite innumerable examples of race inequality in our society—there are too many people who can’t ...