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But by the time my semester came to an end, I learned some wholly unexpected lessons about the transformative power of prayer in a jail setting; about the effects on the body of such personal transformation; and about this country's systemic racism and how it is in some ways coterminous with the attempt to prevent or repress such transformation.

It strikes me with something akin to terror to think how we permitted ourselves to be taken in, silenced and neutralized, by the boyish grin and a trickle - down prosperity while resurgent racism, Rambo militarism, cultural philistinism, and unregulated, let - them - eat - cake capitalism swaggered across the stage on an eight - year run.

The transition is tragic because the moderns failed to understand, just as the originators of classical cultures had, how the liberative potential of reason as the human ability to raise ever further relevant questions is alienated and frustrated in authoritarian societies deeply marked by classism, sexism, racism, technocentrism, and militarism.

It's easy to talk about how racism isn't an issue when I don't have friends who have had their lives altered or defined by daily injustices.

And my whole thing is that people do not understand how racism is so destructive — not only in the obvious ways like segregation or red lining or police violence, but by the mere fact that even if you're not encountering those specific struggles, racism can still kill you by eroding your health.

The exhibit moves on to explore how race has been constructed in different societies at different times in history and how those constructs have been taken up by states to justify institutionalized racism.

Blown away by the hit horror movie, the author and educator decided to design a semester - long special course about how horror and anti-black racism have intertwined in the cinema.

MaryAnn Johanson: Dee Rees's marvelous film is of course a terrific look at racism in the rural South in the 1940s: I particularly love how it shows how its two WWII veterans, one black and one white, are changed by their experiences of race relations in Europe and in the US Army during the war, that they discover that the way things have been in America are not automatically the way they must be, that their world could be better and fairer.

And how Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson prevailed (as played by Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe) in the face of racism, sexism and the rising power and reliance upon computers.

I should note that by «racism,» we don't mean the willful harming of people of color by white people — this is how the law has often framed it.

Insisting upon real rigor for all Connecticut's children and addressing the needs of children disadvantaged by poverty and racism — that is how Connecticut will be a state where people want to live, work, and invest in their future.

By engaging in a discussion about research and building and district practices, participants will better understand how students perceive racism within the learning environment and learn how to begin conversations within their own school communities about race and racial equity.

Death by a Thousand Cuts: Racism, School Closures, and Public School Sabotage, a stunning report released this week by Journey for Justice (J4J), cuts through the ideological babble on school «reform» and lets us listen as «voices from America's affected communities of color» — parents, students, and community leaders — tell us how school closures and privatization are affecting them, their neighborhoods, and their children.

Dear EP Fellows, Alumni, and Friends, The brazen acts of hatred, bigotry, and violence by white supremacists in Charlottesville last weekend disgusted me personally, and were a horrific reminder of how much work we must do to break down the systems and structures in our nation that perpetuate inequality, inequity, and racism.

Through short, diary - like chapters she brings us up close and personal with her life and the very real problems of being a poor immigrant living in an effective ghetto, surrounded by poverty, bigotry, racism and misogyny - so we can get some sense of how overwhelming it is to survive in such an environment, let alone to dream of finding a better life.

I am not blind to how unattractive Ethel's uncritical acceptance of racism was, to the extent that I think she buried in denial how painful it was to be separated from her only friend, and then see that friend be raped by her father.

Odutola's portraits explore how to desegregate blackness from a fixed racial position and open it out to all the mythology, missteps, racism, beauty, and life that is held by the term, while still landing it within the free space of bodies.

A timely addition to the 2017 exhibition calendar, the British Museum's spring blockbuster will bring together works by Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha and Kara Walker to reveal how artists have responded to key events in US history over the last 50 years — from the assassination of JFK to the Vietnam War and the AIDS crisis, as well as their personal experiences with racism and gender inequality.

The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the killing of several unarmed black people by Police and the water crisis in Flint, Michigan are only two of countless examples showcasing how systematic racism is still alive and well in America today.

The artist was praised by the judges for her «uncompromising tackling of issues including colonial history and how racism persists today» as well as her «expansive and exuberant approach to painting, which combines satire and a sense of theatre».

African - born, Lancashire - based Himid was praise by judges for her «uncompromising tackling of issues including colonial history and how racism persists today».

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We need go back just 50 years to see how another disaster in the making — the «population explosion» — led not only to a positive ecological awareness, but also to the formulation and partial implementation of Draconian international social policies that have been revealed in the last decade as being motivated as much by post-colonial fears (and a fair amount of racism) as they were by «hard» science.

«I can not think about climate change without thinking about Charlottesville, about the long legacy of racism, xenophobia, and fascism in this country, and how the communities most affected by Trump's environmental rollbacks will be poor communities of color.»

On the second day, the panel of accomplished and wise Aboriginal women (led by senior federal advisor Kerrie Tim, with Eileen Cummings, June Oscar AO, and Karen Nangala Woodley) was also a standout because it reminded us how important it is that we acknowledge that our research is taking place in a context of a colonised white Australia, and that white research has long been used to entrench racism and sexism in Aboriginal communities, rather than to enhance understanding and bring about transformative social change.

How racism might affect school attendance by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students is also part of research being done by Nicholas Biddle, a Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University (ANU).

How racism might affect school attendance by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students is also part of research being done by