Via The New Yorker. Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason. By Elizabeth Kolbert In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had … Read More
Via Medium. Equity is a Verb by equityXdesign The following is the text of remarks given by equityXdesign co-author Christine Ortiz to open New Profit’s 2017 Reimagine Learning Convening. To watch Christine deliver this talk, scroll to the end of the post. I have never felt more Puerto Rican than I do now. Which is … Read More
Via PBS. How Teachers are Trying to Stop the Spread of Hate As children in the U.S. woke up and went to school Friday morning, the world was grappling with the news of the mass shootings that killed 49 people at two mosques in New Zealand. “It’s absolutely necessary that we don’t wait until we have horrific … Read More
Via The New York Times. The Effect of Intersectionality in the Workplace By Alina Tugend Photo by Andrea Levy The concept of intersectionality — referring to the complex and cumulative way different forms of discrimination like racism, sexism and classism overlap and affect people — seems have popped up relatively recently. But as Brittany Packnett, an … Read More
Via Stanford University. Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be here this morning, to have the opportunity of standing in this very great and significant pulpit. And I do want to express my deep personal appreciation to Dean Sayre and all of the … Read More
Via The New York Times. Criticism of Skin Lighteners Brings Retreat by Unilever and Johnson & Johnson The companies have responded to a new wave of criticism calling beauty products that advocate lighter skin discriminatory. By Priya Arora and Sapna Maheshwari As major consumer products companies have rushed to declare their opposition to racism in response to the … Read More
