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Winona LaDuke: “Thinking Beyond Empire”

By Winona LaDuke — 2011

Winona LaDuke, Picard lecturer at United Theological Seminary’s Spring Convocation 2011 delivers the first of a two day series of lectures.

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Supai Hopi Mona Polacca: Water, Prayer and Humility

Mona Polacca, Havasupai/Hopi, spoke at the Rights of Mother Earth Conference, about the foundation of life. From the first water inside the mother’s womb, to the prayer upon which life depends, Polacca spoke of the spirituality of life.

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Brenda Norrell
2012
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13 Globe-Trotting Indigenous Grannies Carry Message of Unity and Prayer

Thirteen matriarchs from indigenous cultures are currently touring the world, promoting peace, unity, and a respect for nature. nicola Graydon meets one of them, Mona Polacca.

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Nicola Graydon
2001
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Realizing Our Roots and the Power of Interconnectedness

In my upbringing, I was taught that everyone is my relative. That we are all relatives. My parents and grandparents instilled this value since I was a child and I notice that, without question, it helps me to see the value in each person and living thing.

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Mona Polacca
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Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing

A gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang life to take up the warrior’s fight against the assault on Indigenous peoples’ lands—and eventually the warrior’s spirituality.

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Clayton Thomas-Muller
2024
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Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture

Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media―from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels―has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self.

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Leigh Raiford (Editor), Heike Raphael-Hernandez (Editor)
2017
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A Black Entrepreneur in 2021 with Performance Anxiety

This is me, 90% of the time. The other 10% is often filled with performance anxiety and unrealistic standards of perfection.

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Jasmine RuKim
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Race Matters

First published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr.

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Cornel West
2017
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Black Women’s Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability

This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black women’s struggle for inner peace and mental stability.

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Stephanie Y. Evans (editor), Nsenga K. Burton (editor), Kanika Bell (editor)
2018
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How Our Brains Can Find Peace in a Crisis

Psychologist Rick Hanson discusses how to strengthen our capacity for wisdom, peace, and enlightenment.

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Jill Suttie
2020
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