Category Archives: Social Justice

Conflict and Deception in AFSC: Updates

The conflict in AFSC over disclosures about their Director of DEI continues. A Friday update to the blog post that broke this story is here: https://wp.m/p5FGIu-7t0

Black History Month Lives Here: Zora Neale Hurston: Pioneering Anthropologist & Author

How novelist Zora Neale Hurston transformed American anthropology A 2025 documentary, “Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming Space,” focuses on Hurston’s work as one of the country’s first Black woman ethnographers and filmmakers From The Washington Post By DeNeen L. Brown  — January 17, 2023 In the late 1920s, Zora Neale Hurston, who would become one of … Continue reading Black History Month Lives Here: Zora Neale Hurston: Pioneering Anthropologist & Author →

Taking Down “Stonewall” Jackson & Robert E. Lee: A Saga of Now 4e&

[NOTE: Making, Un-making, and Re-making history: this piece has it all; plus two kinds of revolutionary art, personal achievement, bulletproof vests, and religion in action.] The Washington Post — January 2, 2023 White contractors wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it. Story by Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND — Workers in bright yellow vests … Continue reading Taking Down “Stonewall” Jackson & Robert E. Lee: A Saga of Now 4e& →

The Scheme: The “Captured” Supreme Court Is Stealing Our Right to Jury Trials

Sheldon Whitehouse, in The Scheme: Beyond protecting polluters, the [Supreme Court’s] Roberts Five have weakened antitrust protections, shielded corporate executives from shareholder suits, protected drug manufacturers from state tort laws, taken away fair pay protections from entire categories of workers, restricted class actions that redress low-dollar mass frauds (like adding a small wrongful charge … Continue reading The Scheme: The “Captured” Supreme Court Is Stealing Our Right to Jury Trials →