Category Archives: Diversity & Multiculturalism
Amartya Sen: Fear, Fact, and Freedom
On September 22, 1994, the venerable New York Review of Books published economist Amartya Sen’s essay “Population: Delusion and Reality,” his response to the long history of worries about over-population, from Malthus to Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb) to Garrett … Continue reading
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Dick Gregory: Comedy and Social Change
Besides being one of the funniest men in the history of American comedy, DICK GREGORY (1932-2017) has been a groundbreaking black writer and an activist in Civil Rights, in politics, and in food and health issues. An activist vegetarian, he … Continue reading
Think Like a Man
“There is no truer statement: men are simple.” So begins the first chapter of Steve Harvey’s Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Men are driven by “who they are, what they do, and how much they make,” according to … Continue reading →