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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

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Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

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The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional d...more

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The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothing more than the color of their skin, is now a foss...more

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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’...more

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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recogni...more

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize th...more

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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their ...more

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The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissa...more

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Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the sun, it clearly has moved beyo...more

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Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and ...more

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If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we a...more

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On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's ...more

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History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always ac...more

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Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be conquered by recogniz...more