On Thursday, I was wrapped up in the fervor of the controversy at Mizzou when I saw a post on Facebook by a dear friend of mine about suicide bombers in Beirut, Lebanon, her hometown.
As history has proven, indigenous Americans have had to lose the most, as Columbus Day (or, as some places now call it, Indigenous People’s Day) reminds us every year.
Kyle Spencer’s New York Times article, “At New York Private Schools, Challenging White Privilege From the Inside”, discussed attempts by pricey New York City private schools to address diversity talks in a new way.
If the death of Michael Brown has taught us anything, it’s that a year after the acquittal of George Zimmerman for Trayvon Martin’s murder, people can no longer sit and watch as institutionally approved racial profiling is committed on a daily basis by those put in place to protect and serve.
On Monday, Feb. 24, Fordham College at Lincoln Center's (FCLC) Center on Religion and Culture and the Fordham Theatre Program hosted a panel discussion entitled “Is Empathy Enough? Racial Justice and the Moral Imagination in the 21st Century.”