Category: Technology
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It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Climate Crisis
It’s Getting Hot in Here In June 2016, I witnessed firsthand the fury of Mother Nature. I was in West Virginia on a backpacking trip at Monongahela National Park. The second morning of the trip, a couple of park rangers told our group that we should head for higher ground because the river might crest…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
12 police officers injured during North Carolina protests “Protests erupted overnight Tuesday into Wednesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a police officer shot and killed an African-American man while looking for another person who had an outstanding warrant.” #NorthCarolina#BlackLivesMatter#KeithLamontScott 375 Top Scientists Warn Us Not To Vote For Trump Hundreds of the world’s leading scientists,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Breaking: Riot Police Begin Mass-Arrests at Dakota Access Pipeline, FB Censors Video “According to independent news outlet Unicorn Riot, at least 20 protesters, or “water protectors,” have been arrested at gunpoint along with medics and two journalists. Police issued a one-time warning to “water protectors” that any trespassers would be arrested. The warning came…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
I’m an American woman living in Delhi. ‘Don’t date the locals’ is horrible advice. Because, much to the contrary of that insulting advice I received while studying abroad here the first time, falling in love with people who are different from you is the only way to find real community in another culture. And learning…
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The New Mis-Education of the Negro
A Brief History Lesson In November 2008, America elected the first person of color to the highest office in the land. Many media and political pundits were claiming that America had reached the point of becoming a post-racial society. Since white folks voted in such large numbers for a black man, the country had supposedly…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
For These African Migrants, Life in China Isn’t What They Promised “More and more Gambian migrants are giving up on their “Chinese Dream” and doing whatever they can to head home. “ #Gambia#China#Migrants#International Black science fiction writers face ‘universal’ racism, study finds “The world of speculative fiction publishing is plagued by “structural, institutional, personal,…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
The climate crisis is already here – but no one’s telling us “What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of our lives, and towards topics of brain-melting irrelevance” #ClimateChange #FossilFuels Uganda’s morals police are investing $88,000 in…
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THE WEEK IN STORIES AROUND THE GLOBE
Nicaraguans are using crowdsourcing technology to prove that a good map can change your life “Taking a bus in Latin America can be a disorienting experience. While the light rail systems in places like Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro have system maps that are fairly easy to understand, most cities…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Uprooted in Mexico: the US children ‘returned’ to a country they barely know “The children called him names and laughed at his Spanish. The teacher didn’t care, he just sat in class unable to understand or speak to anyone. He cried every day and begged me to send him back to the US,” said Aguilar,…
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The Rise of the White Savior Complex and Our Failure in Diversity
What do movies like Dangerous Minds, Hardball, and The Freedom Writers all have in common? They’re all movies detailing a well-meaning white person coming into the ‘hood’ to save all of the little black and brown children from themselves and the wayward people in the community. The White Savior Complex is a modern spin on…
Evolving Folks Project 