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Blog: For Undocumented Communities, Fear and Anxiety on the Trump Agenda

March 7, 2017 Barely one month into the new administration and President Trump has already demonstrated he is willing to make good on some of his most dangerous campaign promises. Immigration raids from Los Angeles to Atlanta, coupled with a...
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Blog: A New Social Compact

Our society is undergoing a profound shift. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, many of our foundational values and assumptions about our democracy are being called into question. Our core institutions and norms are under attack and in need of...
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  • February 3, 2017

Refugee and Immigration Executive Order is Unconstitutional and Antithetical to a Fair and Inclusive Society

On Friday, January 27, President Trump issued an extraordinary executive order (#13769) under the title “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Entry into the United States.” The scope and complexity of the order generated confusion among those charged...
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Blog: We can’t meaningfully integrate schools without desegregating neighborhoods

December 15, 2016 By Richard Rothstein A bill introduced in the New York City Council proposes to establish “an office of school diversity within the human rights commission dedicated to studying the prevalence and causes of racial segregation in...
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California: America’s egalitarian and inclusive refuge? Not so fast

December 14, 2016 The great state of California is known for many things: its sublime national parks, stunning beaches, Hollywood and Silicon Valley, world-class public universities and dominant professional sports teams. And as the greater portion...
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What Ben Carson Should Learn about Housing Segregation

December 5, 2012 President-elect Donald Trump proposes to nominate Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Mr. Carson has expressed opposition to the Obama administration’s new requirement that cities and suburbs...
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  • November 29, 2016

Blog: The Global Heart of Darkness

Image courtesy of Nadia Barhoum/AlJazeera [Image Description: Four refugees, including a mother holding a child, by the shore in Chios, Greece] I spent two weeks on Chios volunteering and working with refugees who languish in despair and often...
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  • November 28, 2016

Blog: Resistance and the Rebirth of Inclusion

My, our, disagreement with Trump is in fact rooted in his support for oppression against people that he and his supporters see as other, and against their denial for their humanity and their right to exist.
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Blog: Sanitizing White Nationalism - The Invention of the Term “Alt-Right”

November 19, 2016 [Lead photo credit: Mathias Wasick, Creative Commons License via Flickr] Where did the term “Alt-right” come from and how did it get into popular use? It turns out “Alt-right” was a recent invention, poking its head into social...
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  • November 17, 2016

Blog: The International Day of Tolerance

November 16 is International Day of Tolerance. On September 1, 1995 the Declaration of Principles and Follow-up Plan of Action for the United Nations Year of Tolerance urgently encouraged member states, “not to fail upon the intellectual and moral...
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Season of the Demogouge

Americans head to the polls today in what is likely the most important and consequential election in more than a generation, and certainly the most fraught since 1968, which followed the assassinations of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and...
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Obama’s People and The African Americans: The Language of Othering

October 24, 2016 Names used to refer to the “Black” community have changed, and continue to change. I sometimes say I was born a colored boy, then I became a Negro, then Black, then African American, and still we are not done. To the list of...
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Dear Donald: A Letter from Students Who Have Been Singled Out

October 18, 2016 Dear Donald, The 2016 US Presidential Campaign has not only stirred the nation—it has also shaken the entire world. The unique and historic turn of events has changed the way we as a global community view politics. With developing...
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  • October 12, 2016

On National Coming Out Day, I Celebrate My Birthday

I was born 28 years ago today in Houston, Texas. I am the youngest of three siblings to parents of Filipino descent. Also 28 years ago today, National Coming Out Day (NCOD) was established by Robert Eichsberg and Jean O’Leary to mark the anniversary...
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Implicit Bias in the Presidential Debate

The presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on Monday night was the most watchedpresidential debate in American history. Race was a prominent theme of the debate, as it has been the whole campaign. At one point, moderator Lester...

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  • April 17, 2024

Targeted Universalism Case Study: Vision for Baltimore

Vision for Baltimore (V4B) is a successful program at Baltimore City Schools (BCS) designed to provide annual vision screenings for all students and, when necessary, to provide follow-up eye exams and eyeglasses at no cost to families. Download PDF...
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Depolarization Day

Want a chance to hear from experts studying the root of what’s driving us apart and how we come back together? Eager to build the skills to listen empathetically, elicit narratives of connection, and interview professionally? Looking for a chance...
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  • April 19, 2024

The Power of Bridging

A research-backed guide for building bridges across difference in any area of our lives, from esteemed civil rights scholar john a. powell. We don't want to live in a society in turmoil. In the US, 93 percent of people want to reduce divisiveness...