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Co-Founding the ACLU, Fighting for Labor Rights and Other Helen Keller Accomplishments Students Don’t Learn in School

By Olivia B. Waxman — 2020

Most students learn that Keller, born June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Ala., was left deaf and blind after contracting a high fever at 19 months, and that her teacher Anne Sullivan taught her braille, lip-reading, finger spelling and eventually, how to speak. However, there is still a great deal about her life and her accomplishments that many people don’t know.

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We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

“Organizing is both science and art.

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Equity in Wellness—Presented by Nicole Cardoza

Wellness should be accessible to everyone. How can we use privileged practices to address social isolation in underserved communities?

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Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin’s “after times,” argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

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“We gotta make a space for that feminine voice to be heard...” | Woman Stands Shining

“Confronting Gender: Seeing, Hearing, and Valuing the Feminine” | 2018 Festival of Faiths Pat McCabe, whose indeginous name is Weyakpa Najin Win (Woman Stands Shining), is a Dine’ (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker.

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Architects of Change: Martha Beck

Maria Shriver sits down with author and friend Martha Beck for an Architects of Change LIVE conversation.

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“Revolutionary Mindfulness”: Rhonda V. Magee’s Keynote at the 2017 Acmhe Conference

How do mindfulness and compassion practices support us in the work of educating for not merely radical but revolutionary social change? In this presentation, Professor Magee identifies research and practices that support the communion of inner work, interpersonal work, and systemic change.

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It’s Not About Love After All | angel Kyodo williams | TEDxWashingtonSquare

Rev. angel Kyodo williams notes, “Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”

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Thomas Hübl: Mystical Principles of Healing

Integrating the Past - Presenting the Future: Thomas talks about the nature of healing as a process of personal and collective transformation.

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Michelle Obama’s 2020 Commencement Address | Dear Class of 2020

With commencements and graduations across the country cancelled, Former First Lady Michelle Obama and her Reach Higher initiative teamed up with YouTube to celebrate students reaching this major milestone.

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Healing Justice: Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers

Healing justice, a term that has emerged in social movements in the last decade, is taught as a practice of connecting to the whole self, what many are conditioned to ignore -- the body, mind-heart, spirit, community, and natural world.

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