” Snijders’zeer korteverhalen(“very short stories,” usually abbreviated tozkv) were also just the thing my melted brain needed. According to the people who count these things, most of the stories in this collection are no longer than 300 words. One paragraph, maybe two; rarely longer ...
Texas, which also made her the first female law school dean in Texas history. Aldave set out to make the law school more diverse and especially sensitive to people of color. During her deanship, minority enrollment rose from 11 to 38 percent. The school also...
My mother was a domestic.Through her work,she observed that 3people spent a lot more time reading than they 4 watching television.She announced that my brother and I 5 watch two to three pre—selected TV programs during the week. With our free time,we each had to read two books from ...
John Adams knew the secret in the heart of democracy: a death wish. “There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide,” he wrote. And so the American people, in their belligerent stupidity, have again given the awesome power of the presidency to the man who attempted to ove...
The account that posted the video added, “Pretty sure some people would consider this to be CRT.” In the comments, he then posted, “That’s the thing about 1775.. it’s open to interpretation. Did this have the capacity of making students feel shame? Absolutely. It’s a purposefully...
-Humiliation: I have been misrepresented. I can’t show my face ever again. People don’t believe me that I did nothing wrong. -Shame: Why am I the person who has been ostracized? There really must be something really wrong with me. ...
“Where did you get the money for…..” anything and everything can be asked, and there are now a number of felonies on the books that basically say “you did this to commit tax fraud unless you can prove otherwise, it’s off to the slammer with you.” Stricter scrutiny can be ...
People of color “have always been forced to read about the experiences of people who aren’t like us. And so this time around, the banning of specifically books by Black folks, and primarily by people of color, are touching on very real experiences,” Johnson said. “This ban looks diff...
Howard was left feeling dismayed. “In spite of efforts at publicity regarding what the rule was and was not, I believe there remained a widespread misunderstanding,” he says. “People expected the law to cover a much broader range of life’s ordinary insults than it did. I’m alarmed th...
Most people, when you really dig into their mind, have five-year goals – aka “when I make it big, THEN I’ll start living the life I want to” plans. This is broken thinking. A big shiny goal in your distant future will motivate a green entrepreneur who hasn’t experienced any ha...