Well then, it’s settled. There will be no death for you who have accepted fiction over fact and value culture over the cultivation of knowledge— which will go on separating the wheat from the chaff,... Read More

BOOK BY TA-NEHISI COATES SPIEGEL & GRAU; 2015 176 PP.; $24.00 The Black Lives Matter movement confused me at first. I didn’t understand why so many black Americans were so angry. But then I remembered... Read More

BOOK BY SIKIVU HUTCHINSON INFIDEL BOOKS, 2015 325 PP., $10.95 Sikivu Hutchinson heads Black Skeptics Los Angeles and is a social justice activist as well as the author of several nonfiction books on race, religion,... Read More

BOOK BY RICK HELLER NEW WORLD LIBRARY, 2015 288 PP.; $15.95 The very short review of Rick Heller’s Secular Meditation: If you’re curious about secular meditation and mindfulness, there’s finally a book for you. And... Read More

This week’s poem is by AshlieRene Gonzalez, a twenty-four-year-old, Oregon-based international traveler, photographer and cinematographer. Her lucid poetry and writing, frequently paired with imagery, is a truthful reflection of a twenty-first century freethinker, living in,... Read More

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Representation matters. Sociologists and psychologists have long known that when we see others like us in important and powerful positions, we can imagine what is possible for ourselves and model that behavior to improve our... Read More