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Going Back to School Looks Different in Midlife

By Bill Wodhams — 2020

University started later for me than most. The opportunity wasn’t available when I was younger—too many siblings in our family, too little money. But I never stopped wondering what university would have been like, what went on behind the tall brick walls of those serious grey buildings. Twenty-plus years later, and I finally had the chance to find out.

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The Connection Between Diversity, Inclusion and Corporate Responsibility

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The Intersectionality Wars

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Radicalizing Yoga and Bringing Social Justice to the Mat

Yoga teacher and activist Michelle C. Johnson talks to Nonviolence Radio about her book “Skill In Action.”

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Q&A with the Rev. William Barber, Building “Fusion Coalition” that Unites People Against Poverty

Barber makes clear his belief that the role of Christians is to call for social justice and allow the “rejected stones” of American society—the poor, people of color, women, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, religious minorities—to lead the way.

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Rev. William Barber Builds a Moral Movement

“This moment requires us to push into the national consciousness, but not from the top down, but from the bottom up.”

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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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