Human mental bandwidth is finite. You’ve probably experienced this before (though maybe not in those terms): When you’re lost in concentration trying to solve a problem like a broken computer, you’re more likely to neglect other tasks, things like remembering to take the dog for a walk, [...]
"Intelligence." What visions of grandeur does the word conjure up? What does the lexeme connote? Most of us think of "intelligence" as intellect, aptitude, or acumen, any or each. As a society we prize "intelligence." Indeed, we will pay any price to achieve it. Consider the countless [...]
An image of Trayvon Martin is held aloft at a gathering Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (Mladen Antonov, AFP/Getty Images / August 24, 2013) By Sandy Banks Originally Published at The Los Angeles [...]
Photo Credit: Getty Images For two score and ten years we have misremembered and made mythical the stories we prefer to believe. Perhaps that is why, fifty years later, there is a need to March again for Jobs and Freedom. In 1963 Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King’s [...]
Al Sharpton is one of the primary conveners of this Saturday’s march in Washington D.C. to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington. Photo: Getty Images/Andrew Burton Might it be that the divide in this country expresses itself in ways that are beyond color and class? Could it [...]
By Michael Tarm, Associated Press Originally Published at The San Francisco Chronicle. August 15, 2013 CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that he won't order a halt to public school closings in Chicago, a decision that followed days of sometimes emotional testimony on the issue [...]
Photo Credit: Shutterstock Are we truly post-racial or do we just posit racial realities that never were, or would have been? Let us wipe the board clean or discuss what soon may be unseen. [If you choose, after the read consider the Petiton] By Chris Partridge | [...]
In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington. (AP Photo/File) By Gary Younge | Originally Published at The Nation August 14, 2013 This article [...]
All of us might recall our history, in part. We remember Martin Luther King Junior delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech on Lincoln Mall. While we may not have been there on that momentous day, we have read accounts, seen footage, or perhaps have spoken [...]
