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Bob Dylan's Art of Conversation: Should We Demand More From Dylan and Boomers Right Now?

Jun 24, 2020

Bob Dylan was the protest icon of a generation. “The times they are a-changing,” sang Bob Dylan and “a hard rains’ gonna fall.” Now, those 1960s protests are deep in the rearview mirror. A new generation is in the streets, with demands for a racial, cultural, gender, economic and structural accounting that...

A Watershed Moment: Dr. Andre Perry on How We Make Substantive Structural Changes To End Inequality

Jun 14, 2020

Know Your Price, Dr. Andre Perry's dynamic new book, offers concrete policy solutions that lift up Black communities and asks us to invest in Black people as he defines six Black-majority cities whose assets and strengths are undervalued.

A fellow at the non-partisan Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., Dr. Perry...

The Risk of The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

Jun 5, 2020

At the same time as protests erupted across American cities and the world demanding racial equity, the cities have become dystopian scenes of military hold. Gen. James Mattis now warns of division from the very top as a threat to American democracy. Many protests began peacefully until the nefarious, often...

What Do We Tell the Kids? And How – and When – Do We Get Them Back to School?

Jun 3, 2020

The country is in crisis. Riots, protest, police brutality, pandemic. What do we tell our kids to help them understand? And how do we get them educated in our time of Covid-19? When and how do they go back to school?

We reached out to leading educator Dr. Jennifer Price. She knows the public school world, the private...