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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
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Forgiveness
Forgiveness
Hugh Taft-Morales Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society What is forgiveness? How should humanists approach forgiveness so that it elevates our quality of life and strengthens our commitment to ethical living? Felix Adler wrote that “to forgive is not to forget—quite the contrary. To forgive is to remember the past action, but to remember it as belonging […]
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Black Women’s Bodies in the Archive and the Afterlife of Captivity
Black Women’s Bodies in the Archive and the Afterlife of Captivity
Marisa Fuentes Rutgers University Historical and contemporary records are consistently unreliable for understanding Black lives in precarity. Historian Marisa Fuentes will consider the ethics of historical research into vulnerable subjects by analyzing a document from the Barbados colonial slave archives alongside the police investigation into the killing of Breonna Taylor. She also will offer ethical […]
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Dogs, Cats, and Sentientism
Dogs, Cats, and Sentientism
Hugh Taft-Morales Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society Animals have long supported human life, from their non-consensual role in our diets to their loving place in our homes. Humans often go to great lengths to care for them: rescuing wild animals in distress or feeding feral ones. Hugh will share two stories—one about dogs and one about […]
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Polices Black Families
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Polices Black Families
Dorothy Roberts University of Pennsylvania Acclaimed scholar Dorothy Roberts exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system. Roberts argues it is a “family policing system” designed to put Black families under intense state surveillance and regulation, driving many Black children into juvenile detention and imprisonment. She calls for both dismantling this system and reimagining how to […]