Via Vox. The Intersectionality Wars When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral. By Jane Coastonjane.coaston@vox.com Updated May 28, 2019, 9:09am EDT There may not be a word in American conservatism more hated right now than “intersectionality.” On the right, intersectionality is seen as “the new … Read More
Via Ella Baker. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists Read the full PDF here. Via Ella Baker.
Via The New York Times. Many Latinos Couldn’t Stay Home. Now Virus Cases Are Soaring in Their Communities. Rates of coronavirus infection among Latinos have risen rapidly across the United States. By Shawn Hubler, Thomas Fuller, Anjali Singhvi and Juliette Love DINUBA, Calif. — When the coronavirus first spread to the fields and food processing factories of California’s Central Valley, … Read More
Via The Saturday Evening Post. Crisis to Opportunity — Survival or Thrival with COVID-19 The primitive part of your brain can hamper your ability to think, analyze, evaluate, and plan during a crisis like COVID-19. Learn how to gain control and thrive instead of just survive. Jim Taylor, Ph.D. We humans like to think of … Read More
Via CNN. These Black Nature Lovers are Busting Stereotypes, One Cool Bird at a Time By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN)Everyone has the bird. Corina Newsome calls it a gateway bird, the one special species that sets an avian enthusiast on a lifetime course of discovery and environmental passion. Hers was the blue jay. For Tykee James, it was … Read More
Via The New York Times. Black Environmentalists on Climate and Anti-Racism By Somini Sengupta This week, with the country convulsed by protests over the killing of a black man named George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, we decided we’d talk to leading black climate activists about the connections between racism and climate change. A clear theme emerged … Read More
