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Learning About Race and Racism:  Is Discomfort Always Bad?

Leonard Moore, author of Teaching Black History to White People, due out this month, is currently a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.  For more than two decades, he’s taught white students in the south about … Continue reading

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Coffee Cup Chats on Race: DOA

How many of us remember something called RACE TOGETHER?  It was the brainchild of Starbuck’s CEO Howard Schultz.  It lasted about as long as Schultz’s recent run for the President of the U.S. About five years ago, Schultz hastily put … Continue reading

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Learning from Ferguson

Since the August 9th killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white police officer by the name of Darren  Wilson, protests in Ferguson, Missouri have become commonplace.  Thousands have participated in these protests, and many have voiced … Continue reading

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