#white people

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society,” Carl Sagan insisted at the end of his life in arguing for reading as the path to democracy. “Someone reading a book is a sign of order in the world,” wrote the poet

Author: Daniel Victor / Source: New York Times What makes the police encounters chilling is how routine they are. They’re sparked by black people going about their everyday lives, only to be interrupted by someone calling the police for the thinnest of suspicions. In the past month, more than a

Via Campus Reform, Most Americans expect college professors to be beacons of knowledge and wisdom, or at least to exercise more maturity than their teenage students. Every year, however, Campus Reform comes across professors who unashamedly make outrageous, preposterous, and downright absurd

As part of its Campus Equity and Inclusion Forums, the enlightened faculty of Western Washington University have decided to host a workshop that aims to "reduce the impact of white privilege on social and academic relations"...because the best way to address racial barriers (real or imagined) is to

A trio of students at SUNY Binghamton have created a course for resident advisors called “#StopWhitePeople2K16” that is supposed to “help others take the next step in understanding diversity, privilege, and the society we function within”. The full description can be found in the Binghamton