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 Medium. Letting Go: 8 Years After Losing My Life Partner to Police Violence By Brandon D. Anderson Well before I was born, my grandfather, Foster, organized a group of Black business owners against police harassment. Grandpa Foster owned a nightclub in Oklahoma City where police had harassed him and his customers, threatening their safety so … Read More
Via Thread Reader. Research-Based Solutions to Stop Police Violence By Samuel Sinyangwe For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know – based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x) Lesson 1. Everything you’ve probably heard is a lie. Specifically, the most discussed “solutions” to … Read More
Via Kiese Laymon. Heavy: An American Memoir Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction, LA Times Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, Barnes and Noble Discover Award, and Audible’s Audiobook of the Year, HEAVY was also named one of the Best Books of 2018 by the The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Library Journal , The Washington Post , Southern Living , Entertainment … Read More
Via Haymarket Books. Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States Edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan PriceForeword by Alicia Garza Explores the reality of US police violence against Black, Brown and Indigenous communities. What is the reality of policing in the United States? Do the police … Read More
Via Amazon. Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life by Radha Agrawal (Author) Get ready to focus on the single most important thing you can do to live a happy, healthy, and successful life: BELONG. “Read this book, do what it says, and discover exactly where you fit in.” —John Mackey, Co-founder … Read More
