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"Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization..."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Fifty-six years ago, in his inaugural address as governor of Alabama, George Wallace issued an infamous cry that has echoed down through our time: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." In later life, he came to regret those words; today every part of America is diversifying, most Americans continue to reach for unity in diversity, and that is critical for the future of this nation...
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"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..."
--Robert Frost
 July 5th
We all need a holiday, but not from each other. The events of the last year--both positive and negative--call for a new celebration on the calendar... Read More...
https://bit.ly/inter_day
 A Monumental Undertaking
George Floyd's death has compelled reckonings from small-town America to NASCAR and the NFL, with dozens of shameless monuments at ground zero. Here's how we can convert our statues of limitations into limitless opportunity... Read More...
https://bit.ly/monument_u
 We owe our brain's diversification to climate instability, so it shouldn't surprise us diversity will be required to address climate change, argues The Atlantic's Richard Gunderman, as study after study confirms diversity is as vital for organizations as it is for organisms... Learn More... And More...
https://bit.ly/diverse_bio https://bit.ly/diverse_fin
 The Washington Post's Dan Keating and Laris Karklis deploy a newly developed index to show us, in county-by-county visual detail, the rapid diversification of our country happening literally before our eyes, with the least diverse areas diversifying fastest of all... Learn More...
https://bit.ly/map_diverse
 Author Corey Robin makes a surprising case in The New Yorker, that arch-conservative justice Clarence Thomas is actually a Black nationalist opposed to racial diversity in all forms, a despairing vision standing in stark contrast to that of John F Kennedy, as elucidated by the Institute's Frank Islam... Learn More... And More...
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"The only thing we have to fear...is fear itself..."
--Franklin D Roosevelt
 In an exhaustive report pulling from a wide body of research, Columbia Teachers College authors writing on behalf of The Century Foundation show Brown v Board of Education was rightly decided for all students for many reasons--cognitive, social, and emotional--the justices in '54 could hardly have dreamed of... Learn More...
https://bit.ly/diverse_schools
 The most diverse city in the U.S. is Stockton, CA. Its multiculturalism enabled its rise from the ashes in the aughts and again today, but its story is also a cautionary tale of diversity denied, one that enclaves across the country appear to be taking to heart, thanks, ironically, to Donald Trump's racist scare tactics... Learn More... And More...
https://bit.ly/stock_ton https://bit.ly/trump_nimby
 The diversity movement traces its origins to the Rainbow Coalition in Chicago, Illinois, where it began more than a decade earlier than popularly believed, under unusual circumstances, led by two Black Panthers, Bob Lee and Fred Hampton, without whom Barack Obama might never have been possible... Learn More... And More...
https://bit.ly/lee_hampton https://bit.ly/hampton_obama
 The ultimate expression of diversity is creativity and the Net is loaded with sites dedicated to its support, ranging from a daily rag, the Creativity Post, to a virtual coffee shop proven to stimulate it. Each day, the Aspen Institute collects and puts forward the 5 best ideas it finds--there's even a site dedicated to creative politics...
https://bit.ly/creativity_post https://bit.ly/asp_ideas
https://bit.ly/coffi_vity https://bit.ly/creat_pol
 They were here a century before the Protestants, before Protestantism even existed. It was the second most popular faith of the colonial era, trailing only Catholicism. They were Muslims, and it was Islam... Learn More...
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