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Taking a STAND Against Discrimination: Nelson Mandela
His English name was Nelson Mandela, but at birth his mother had named him Rolihlahla, which meant “troublemaker” in his native Xhosa tongue.
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Taking Action Against Discrimination: Harry Truman
“For these compelling reasons, we can no longer afford the luxury of a leisurely attack upon prejudice and discrimination.”
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The Lesson of Yom Kippur: Anyone Can Make a New Beginning
The lesson of Yom Kippur is that all of us—no exceptions, no excuses—can change for the better.
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The Real Divide in America, and Where We Go From Here
It sometimes takes an extraordinary amount of courage and patience—and maybe even what some would call grace—to allow someone else to live and see and operate in the world based on a reality that you as an individual just might not understand.
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The United Nations Taps Youth as Our Best Hope Against Hate
This year, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is chillingly well-timed.
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“To Kill A Mockingbird” Marks Anniversary
In a way no scholarly treatise or forensic statistical analysis ever could, the book opened the eyes of its audience, particularly its Southern readers, to their generations-long, casual acceptance of injustice and their indifference towards inequality. By seeing the events of the book through the eyes of a child, Atticus’ daughter, Scout, one experiences the story through the sensibilities and feelings of an innocent.
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UNESCO Commemorates Beginning of the End of the Slave Trade
130 years ago this month, a slave rebellion of unparalleled persistence began which resulted in the creation of the only nation ever to be founded and governed by former slaves and captives. That new nation, Haiti, was spawned in the blood of slaves, brought on by the cruelty and torture of their masters and by the unrelenting defiance of the subjugated population of the French colony of Saint-Domingue on the island of Hispaniola after over a century and a half of callous oppression to the point of sadism.
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What America’s 50,000 Monuments Tell Us About Ourselves
Achievements in science, peace, brotherhood, religion, the arts—those things which bring us together—are conspicuous in their non-memorialization.
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One Century Later, What the Tulsa Massacre Can Tell Us About Today
As we confront a 10-year high in hate crimes, the 1921 destruction of a vibrant and prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma by a white mob has important lessons for today.
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Why Anti-Asian Hate Has No Place in Our Society
Targeting people, especially strangers at random, to be punished simply because of how they look or where they come from is insane behavior that should be treated as such. There is no place for it in a civilized society.
