In 1916, Jeannette Rankin was the first woman ever elected to the United States Congress. She was also the only member of Congress to cast…
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It’s Women’s History Month! March 8th was International Women’s Day so enjoy this Week’s Post: Heroines of Peace https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/heroines-of-peace-the-nine-nobel-women/
Margaret Thatcher once stated during an interview that poverty was essentially self-inflicted, a matter of a lack of “character”. That’s quite a statement given the…
Sometimes we get lucky. Some of you know the story about how I came into contact with Thich Nhat Hanh and his Monks. By chance…
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This Week’s Post gives us a lot to think about: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/outlook/2019/02/22/why-empathy-is-key-dismantling-white-racism/
Enjoy Our Weekly Post: Ralph Bunche – The First African American Nobel Peace Prize Winner https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1950/bunche/acceptance-speech/
2/12/19 – Biweekly Blog: Institutionalized Discrimination…It is Still with Us. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” -Martin Luther King Jr. As part of…
Enjoy Our Weekly Post as we continue the celebrate Black History Month. Today we honor W.E.B. DuBois. https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-w-e-b-dubois/