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Ethically Sourced Cartoons
Ethically Sourced Cartoons
Signe Wilkinson Political cartoonist Wilkinson will share the highs and the this-is-a-new-low-in-journalism-how-dare-you-publish-it!s of her nearly 40-year career chronicling local and national politics for the Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer. In 2021, she illustrated the book Free Speech and Why You Should Give a Damn, written by Penn’s Jonathan Zimmerman. Wilkinson will display her […]
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Creative Social Change
Creative Social Change
Hugh Taft-Morales Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society In two nonconsecutive terms as mayor of Bogota, Columbia, starting in 1995, Antanas Mockus used non-traditional cultural and creative methods to induce positive social change. From hiring mimes to improve crosswalk safety to melting down guns to make baby spoons, Mockus motivated and unified his constituents. Today, when the […]
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Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Literature
Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Literature
Casarae Abdul-Ghani Assistant Professor of English, Temple University Abdul-Ghani will explore the legacy of 1960s civil unrest as captured by the contemporaneous Black Arts Movement (BAM) in drama, fiction, and poetry. BAM forged new conversations about the union of art, activism, and social justice; it also centralized the African American perspective in narrative. In the […]
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Reconstruction and Saving Democracy
Reconstruction and Saving Democracy
Hugh Taft-Morales Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln hoped to bind the nation’s wounds. “Let ’em up easy,” he told the Union Army, trying to discourage retribution. But following the President’s assassination, the federal government, in alliance with formerly enslaved people, radically reconstructed the South, enfranchising and electing Black Americans. Then […]
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Will the truth set you free?
W.E.B. Du Bois: Will the truth set you free?
From the all AEU Program recorded on January 30, 2022 Special guest Dennis D. Parker of the National Center for Law and Economic Justice presents a speech that civil rights' icon W.E.B. Du Bois gave to the NYSEC in 1949. Join here online at the scheduled time: tiny.cc/pesprograms