12 Jan, 2023
The Way to Nonviolence
More than 60 years ago, as many are aware, civil rights activists began organizing to desegregate businesses in Birmingham, Alabama...
12 Jan, 2023
14 Dec, 2022
The Powell Memo revisited
Justice, it seems, is hard to find. Thousands of grassroots organizations across the country seek justice for their concerns. In the US, some 13,785 nonprofits work for civil rights and social justice. Organizations focused on international justice such as peace, refugees, and international aid number 23,532. There are 27,402 environmental groups.
26 Mar, 2022
When Jim Crow greeted black veterans
I figured I’d better write this column while doing so is still legal (at least I think it is), but I don’t recommend reading it aloud in a third-grade classroom...
25 Oct, 2021
Love on the other side of complexity
In the early 1980s, while living in China, my wife and I got lost in an unfamiliar city. At the time our Chinese language skills were non-existent, so we couldn’t ask for directions, let alone understand the answers. It was hot and humid, and after four hours of wandering we were tired, hungry and dehydrated...
26 Mar, 2017
Can Our Social Institutions Catch Up With Advances in Science and Technology?
“H.G. Wells, one of the most prolific and prominent novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…” Lawrence Wittner...
11 Feb, 2016
Looking for America
“In the New Hampshire primary, we have raised up an authentic firebrand in one party, and in the other a...
4 Jul, 2015
What Do Americans Think About Economic Inequality?
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