By The Learning Network — 2020
How do you celebrate and teach the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., both on the holiday that celebrates his birth, and all year long?
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CLEAR ALL
I hope you are well. Before today’s sit, I share with you the single most necessary component of a meditation practice, the aspect that actually keeps it all going. I have learned this after teaching (literally) thousands and thousands of people how to meditate.
From Marine sniper Jake Wood, a riveting memoir of leading over 100,000 veterans to a life of renewed service, volunteering to battle, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, pandemics, and civil wars, and inspiring onlookers as their unique military training saved lives and rebuilt our country.
Let’s hear how revolutionary artists and activists take care of themselves in these chaotic times. Check out what Alicia Garza had to say!
Doug Shipman simplifies community to the simple act of "love thy neighbor." Thank you to Turner Studios for providing in-kind video production services for TEDxAtlanta.
MacArthur Fellow Cristina Ibarra is crafting nuanced narratives about borderland communities, often from the perspective of Chicana and Latina youth.
Howard Thurman Lost Lectures - Love or Perish
Howard Thurman writes about building community. He calls us at once to affirm our own identity, but also to look beyond that identity to that which we have in common with all of life.
Luvvie Ajayi Jones isn’t afraid to speak her mind or to be the one dissenting voice in a crowd, and neither should you. “Your silence serves no one,” says the writer, activist and self-proclaimed professional troublemaker.
Be the peace you wish to see in the world.
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If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.