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To My Daughter, With Love

Mother-daughter bonds within the Black community can be powerful counters against systemic oppression. We invited four moms to share their wisdom in open letters to their daughters.

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Patrice Peck
2021
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Continues His Fight for Racial Equality

Basketball legend lauds 'profound influence' of Black athletes when it comes to social justice.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
2021
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“Let Freedom Ring Wherever the People’s Rights Are Trampled Upon”: What We Can Learn from Nelson Mandela Today

Nelson Mandela was by nature an optimist, but he was as hard-headed as they come. He did not embrace the consoling view of history that, as Martin Luther King said (in a line often quoted by Barack Obama), “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

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Richard Stengel
2020
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‘A Story of Great Resilience’: After Fleeing Taliban, Stranded U of T Mississauga Student Turns to Profs for Help

Exam season is a stressful period for many students – but for Sana Hashim it was also the moment when her world was turned upside down.

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Kate Martin
2022
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The Activism Cure

People who give to others give healthier, happier lives to themselves, argues Meredith Maran.

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Meredith Maran
2009
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10 Questions with Brené Brown

Belinda Luscombe interviews Brené Brown

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Belinda Luscombe
2015
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Caregiving and Complicated Family Dynamics

Family violence is a dynamic process, not an event, that takes varying shapes and forms, often over years, and it can be lodged in caregiving. Caregiving, also a process and not an event, can be lodged in a context of family violence.

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Deborah J. Cohan
2017
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12 Inspiring Life Lessons from Maya Angelou

Here are twelve of Maya Angelou’s most famous quotations and the inspirational life lessons that come from them.

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Chris Haigh
2014
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5 Lessons I Learned from My Interviews with Maya Angelou

Over the decades of my career as a journalist, I have had the privilege of interviewing an incredible array of well-known thought leaders and public figures. I am often asked: “Who was your favorite interview?” It is a question I find nearly impossible to answer.

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Marianne Schnall
2018
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