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1. Racism - Can we stop it? Why can't we all be just humanbeings instead of black or white or brown or whatever?
2. Anti-racism design on t-shirts, mugs, totes and gifts that promotes human rights   Don't be afraid to ask others outside you to help and don't avoid recruiting people whom you don't normally think of as antiracist types. You need to express your opinion in a public way and this will influence others in expressing like you. &n...
3. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee She said it was a love story, but most people think of it as a great classic of Southern life. She never had another book published, yet this one, written early in life, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961--the highest honor for great literatu...
4. Jackie Robinson: The Story of an American Hero On April 15th, 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson stepped onto a baseball diamond in Brooklyn, New York. Photo credit: J.R. Eyerman Buy at AllPosters.com That was a few years after African-American soldiers came home from defending America and freedom i...
5. Racism and children Children are not, by nature, racist. They are not born with damaging assumptions about people in any definable group. We all begin with a winning trust in others, an expectation that people will be good to each other, and that life with others will b...
6. Shades Of Black And White This lens is written based on events in my life that led me to the place I am today. The journey was often times painful and collected its fair share of baggage along the way. The end result was worth every painful step. Please be my guest and read...
7. Stop Eating Dogs! and Other Asian Prejudices Asians are brainiac nerds. Asians are socially awkward and shy, but very hardworking. Asians can't drive--don't let them into your cars. Why have these stereotypes appeared? How did it come about--and how will it affect those people whose lives are fr...
8. Prison Inmates and Mental Illness In most state prisons in the United States, inmates live in overcrowded, often unsanitary conditions with no privacy. These conditions exacerbate symptoms of mental illness and post-traumatic stress disorder. In Prison Madness, Terry Kupers points ou...
9. Blackface Blackface, in the narrow sense, is a style of theatrical makeup that originated in the United States, used to take on the appearance of certain archetypes of American racism, especially those of the "happy-go-lucky darky on the plantation" or the "da...
10. The Life & Works of Rudyard Kipling For many years Rudyard Kipling has been deeply unfashionable. He's been accused of jingoism, imperialism and racism as typified by this poem The White Man's Burden. Take up the White Man's burden- Send forth the best ye breed- Go, bind your sons to e...
11. Mary Seacole - the black Nightingale Mary Seacole is one of the forgotten heroes of the 19th Century.  She was "a woman who succeeded despite the racial prejudice of influential sections of Victorian society". Half Creole, half-Scottish, she was a determined and caring wo...
12. The Most Important World Issues (according to you) In this day and age we all have concerns about the world and how the decisions we make will affect our future and the world around us. What condition will the planet be in when our children inherit it from us? Will we ever find a way to live in peace...
13. Oriana Fallaci - The Lady with a Hat Full of Cherries Oriana Fallaci was an Italian journalist and writer born in Florence July 24, 1929 who died on September 15, 2006. She travelled much in Vietnam, Middle East, and South America. She has interviewed many celebrities and intern...
14. Lensography - The Human Spectrum People often talk of having a niche, but for a long time I wasn't sure I had one. I write about so many topics and one doesn't seem to have much in common with the next. Then someone said something that finally made it all click. They said w...
15. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Lily Owens is the daughter of a brutal father and a mysteriously deceased mother. Her only solace is the black woman, Rosaleen who acts as her mother stand in. Rosaleen was hired by Lily's father after her mother's death. The story takes place in Mo...
16. This Is England: film review and discussion Twelve-year-old Shaun hooks up with a bunch of fun-loving skinheads during the long hot summer of 1983, until the spectre of racism drives the group apart. This is England for me is Shane Meadows most personal film to date. For more info on the film...
17. No bad words, only bad intentions George Carlin said "There are no bad words, only bad intentions." I fully agree with him. The only reason a word is bad, is because we as humans made it bad. It is just a collection of sounds, we are the ones who gave those sounds specific meanings....
18. The Crazy Corrupted World of Italian Soccer Calcio, i.e. Italian football (soccer), is an open-air cageful of weirdos: political violence, conspiracy theories (all proven truthful!), superstition and crazy cults, bribery and corruption, illegal betting, fraudulent bankruptcy at all levels, mon...
19. Eugenics: The Politics of Destruction Eugenics is a racial cleansing movement that started in Victorian America and gained popularity worldwide. This racism was backed by pseudo-science. After the defeat of Hitler, Eugenics lost favor with many Americans. However, the Eugenics movement d...
20. The Answer to Racism "More than half a century has passed since the horrors of the Nazi racial extermination camps were revealed to a disbelieving world. Yet the battle of ethnic hate and violence remains one of the burning issues of our time. Billions of dollars ar...