Online Filters, Algorithms
I’ve occasionally heard social media referred to as an “echo chamber” where people can easily find viewpoints that confirm their...
February 5, 2018
Notebook
2018
Linguistic Diversity as a Social Justice Issue
In The Danger of A Single Story, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks a lot about power; the power to shape the...
January 25, 2018
Oral History Questions for African Americans Who Survived Jim Crow
In 2013 I was an interviewer on an oral history project that was a collaboration between the Ann Arbor District...
January 22, 2018
Notes from Midwest Conversations 2017
“This summer we are beginning anew, not with what we are against but what we are for; not rejections but...
January 9, 2018
2017
7 Reflective Questions to Process Your Year
Courtney E. Martin‘s ON BEING article entitled “7 Questions to End 2017 With Clarity and Start 2018 With Intention” has...
December 31, 2017
“Take Sides”
As I sat in the airport, awaiting my flight home after my last day at the Social Justice Training Institute,...
December 28, 2017
Preparing Students for “The Real World”
“It’s impossible to know everything. Students need to develop tougher skin. They need to know that the real world isn’t...
October 20, 2017
Ending Violence Through Radical Love: Notes from the 2017 A Call To Men Conference
I had an opportunity to attend the national A CALL TO MEN Conference in Minnesota this year. These are just...
October 19, 2017
The Climate
The Climate Although they tell me different, I can see it and feel it. I am telling you… it’s raining...
August 27, 2017
Fires of A Different Kind
Earlier today a Dean asked me to share something I appreciate about the work that I do in social justice...
August 10, 2017
