SPIRITUALITY & CULTURE

Wise provides a non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color but to white people as well.

This is an exerpt from the movie Noam Chomsky On The World: The Noam Chomsky Sessions.

Jessica Valenti talks about Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters. Feminism is alive and well and has a lot to say about the world’s problems. In this book Valenti shares the ideas that she posts on her popular Web site Feministing.com. Her topics include pop culture, health, reproductive rights, violence, …

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Transgender Basics is a 20 minute educational film on the concepts of gender and transgender people Two providers from the Gender Identity Project discuss basic concepts of gender – sex, identity and gender roles – as three transgender community members share their personal experiences of being trans and genderqueer. The film targets service providers and …

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Named one of the 100 most influential black Americans by Ebony magazine, Dyson touches on politics, the arts and the personal, including justice, poverty, faith and spirituality. Known as the “hip-hop” intellectual, he examines issues of class, race and poverty, and political strife. The Commonwealth Club of California – San Francisco, CA – 05.27.09 Topics …

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Renowned civil rights and womens rights leader Angela Davis spoke at Ebenezer Baptist Church in downtown Atlanta on March 24, 2009 for the keynote address of Emory University’s Womens History Month. Davis’s long-standing commitment to prisoners rights dates to her involvement in the campaign to free the Soledad Brothers, which led to her own arrest …

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How does one confront racism in todays world? What factors contribute to the racism and oppression people face? This is a fascinating lecture by Gary Bailey of Simmons College that explores the origins of racism and how it manifests today.

In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois suggested that the question white people so often want to ask black people is, How does it feel to be a problem? This program turns the tables and recognizes some simple facts: Race problems have their roots in a system of white supremacy. White people invented white …

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This 30-minute documentary is the first from an original series of eight made for television in 1966. They were the earliest sound-films of Krishnamurti speaking to audiences. For more videos and a biography of Krishnamurti click here.

Eckhart Tolle: The Deepest Truth of Human Existence