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Kwanzaa and Christmas—the Importance of Cultural Tradition

By Jovan A. Brown — 2021

Kwanzaa was instituted as a means to reaffirm the human agency and cultural dignity of people of African descent. This agency was disrupted during enslavement as persons who owned enslaved Africans, influenced a displacement of practices that were intrinsically African. In its stead, Christianity was often misused to justify the institution of slavery.

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Eliot Halverson Challenges the Gender Norms of Figure Skating

A three-time U.S. champion in figure skating, Eliot Halverson is Colombian-born, was adopted and raised by a white Minnesotan family and is transgender non-binary.

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Jillian L. Martinez
2021
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Muhammad Ali and the Complexity of Black Identity

More than any athlete of his time, Ali challenged the nation’s limiting notions of black identity.

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Michael A. Fletcher
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Making Sense of Belonging

An absence of belonging has negative and devastating effects on people, both physically and psychologically.

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Kelly-Ann Allen
2019
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