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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What the NBA Championship Means to Me

By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — 2021

Why is basketball different from all other sports leagues in embodying America’s social conscience? Perhaps because 83.1 percent of the players and 60 percent of the fans are non-white, making it the only major North American sport in which the majority of fans aren’t white.

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Why Has COVID-19 Been Especially Harmful for Working Women?

COVID-19 is hard on women because the U.S. economy is hard on women, and this virus excels at taking existing tensions and ratcheting them up.

Nicole Bateman, Martha Ross

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Happy Together

When we stop focusing on ourselves, we begin to see that our happiness is dependent on the happiness of all beings. Gaylon Ferguson examines the political, social, and environmental implications.

Gaylon Ferguson

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Finding Our Way in Post-Trump America

Historians, theologians, artists, and activists reflect on where we go from here.

Jacqui Lewis, Margaret Atwood, Paul Ortiz, Leana Wen, Megan Rohrer, Ben Lowe, Wajahat Ali, Jenny Yang, Valarie Kaur, Otis Moss III

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‘There Is Not Some Separation Between Jesus and Justice.’ How Rev. William J. Barber II Uses His Faith to Fight for the Poor

Barber’s newsmaking actions were founded on the idea that being a person of faith means fighting for justice.

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Moral Minority: Whither the U.S. Protestant Left?

Barber spreads a gospel of witness and resistance in the tradition of civil rights and anti-war leaders Martin Luther King, Jr. and William Sloane Coffin. . .

Maxine Phillips

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“Racism May Target Black People, But It Damns a Democracy and It Damns Humanity”

Why Rev. William Barber thinks we need a moral revolution.

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Old Roots, New Branches: Jewish Spiritual Communities and the Rise of Alt-Labor

A growing number of independent, unaffiliated Jewish spiritual communities are sprouting against a backdrop of declining membership in the Conservative and Reform Jewish movements.

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Op-Ed: Rabbi Sharon Brous: Why Jews Should Support Reparations for Slavery

Paying reparations would offer some financial redress, and, most significantly, it would start a reckoning that our country desperately needs.

Rabbi Sharon Brous

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Interview with Joanna Macy: Woman on the Edge of Time

For fifty-plus years, Joanna Macy has been helping us to face the Earth’s urgent and deepening crisis, to look without turning away, and to engage.

Barbara Gates, Susan Moon, Wes Nisker

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The Guardian View on Pope Francis: A Voice in the Wilderness

Guardian editorial--No other spiritual leader is speaking out so clearly for the poor and for the environment in the developing world."

Guardian Editorial

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