Category: Equity
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March 18, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. As chrysanthemums and tulips sprout, birds nest, and winter eases its hold on the ground, humans also begin to change some behaviors. We associate spring with life and vitality. With this also comes annual responsibilities such as cleaning. Cleaning is one of those …
May 7, 2021 The Deep by Rivers Solomon — Review by Rebecca Thacker “Our mothers were pregnant African women/Thrown overboard while crossing the Atlantic Ocean on slave ships/We were born breathing water as we did in the womb/We built our home on the sea floor/Unaware of the two-legged surface dwellers/Until their world came to destroy …
February 19, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Bearing witness is of primary importance in Raoul Peck’s documentary I am Not Your Negro. Using unfinished manuscripts by James Baldwin (which Baldwin had titled Remember This House), the film is separated into the following sections: “Paying My Dues,” “Heroes,” “Witness,” “Purity,” “Selling …
November 6, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. The Social Contract has been on my mind a lot lately. Of course, elections and coronavirus and all of the current stresses on society have been on my mind, and they often circle me back into what it means to exist in a …
August 14, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. The trouble with history is that someone is always writing it. By that I mean, that a single person gives their perspective of an event or series of events, which is an important idea to hold in mind when discussing historical documents. We …
