The other night I watched the 1991 feature JFK about the Kennedy assassination. The film's implications are frightening. While JFK may seem to have little to do with February, with love, relationships, with Black History Month, my thoughts lie in the relationships built and broken. In how events ripple out in waves. In our need as human beings to be brave enough to develop better relationships with ourselves, with others, especially with those who oppose us and with those we think of as "other." Reaching beyond those barriers wherever they lie is how change is done. This month we celebrate Valentine's Day, Black History Month, and President's Day along with LGBT History Month, UK, (January 19), Rosa Park's Birthday (February 4), Alice Walker's Birthday (February 9), Huey Newton's Birthday (February 18), WEB Dubois's Birthday (February … [read more...]
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44 | hail to the chief
INcite with angel Kyodo williams To kick off 2013, I decided to share two… [more]
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President Barack Obama | Victory Speech
Here’s the full transcript from President Obama’s acceptance speech on Wednesday morning, Nov. 7,… [more]
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The Power of Outrospection
What will change the world? According to Roman Krznaric, grassroots empathy and the way we think about… [more]
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Side & Back Arches
The next transition postures of the Friendly Warrior Series are Side and Back Arches. These… [more]
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adrienne maree brown | coevolution through friendship
coevolution is “the change of a biological object triggered by the change of a related object.” a… [more]
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Series of Brooklyn Billboards Put Racial Inequity on Display
Billboards are everywhere in New York City. They’re on subway trains and in stations,… [more]
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Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr.’s Forward Motion for a World That Works for All
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Interconnectedness Means Fight
Original post written & contributed by B. Loewe When I was fifteen years old I was in my ninth… [more]
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44 | hail to the chief
INcite with angel Kyodo williams To kick off 2013, I decided to share two essays I've written in celebration of and conversation with our 44th President Barack Hussein Obama, who is truly an American—in ways good, bad and complicated—than we likely have all considered. He has been deliciously complicated, frustratingly indecipherable and wonderfully imperfect. He has been a man. Can we do … [read more...]
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President Barack Obama | Victory Speech
Here’s the full transcript from President Obama’s acceptance speech on Wednesday morning, Nov. 7, 2012. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves forward. It moves forward because of you. It moves forward because you reaffirmed the … [read more...]
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newDharma Talk | Bearing Witness to Suffering
As a friend of mine likes to say, "You got people, you got problems." Even if we're simply facing ourselves, we've still got problems. We can't escape our pain. We can't hide from it or make it disappear, but we can learn to live with it. We can be in relationship with it. It starts with the simple act of just paying attention. "Maybe just for a moment we can breathe … [read more...]
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Series of Brooklyn Billboards Put Racial Inequity on Display
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Alice Walker | Beauty in Truth
Writer and activist Alice Walker will be featured in a documentary, Beauty in Truth directed by British filmmaker and activist Prathiba … [read more...]
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The month of January has been an intriguing time here at CXC. We have been diligently preparing for the months ahead. Our NewDharma Community will begin … [read more...]
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If you have knee pain, and there doesn't seem to be a real reason for it (e.g., you didn't play football in high school), it … [read more...]