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From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans

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Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? Johanson, founder of the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, led this trip, along with the current director of the Institute, Yohannes Haile-Selassie. Come on, admit it.

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Leveraging Email Automation to Enhance Donor Relationships

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

Dr. Apryl Williams, an assistant professor in communications and media at the University of Michigan, said in a TIME article, “These memes are actually doing logical and political work…[and] highlighting and sort of commenting on the racial inequality in a way that mainstream news doesn’t capture.” Notes Personal communication from a reader.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

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In 1912, John Whitridge Williams, a professor of obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association titled “Medical Education and the Midwife Problem in the United States.” 51 In liberatory economic models of birth centers, midwives—and communities—thrive.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

A condensed version of the text has been edited for republication, with permission from University of California Press. Copyright Tasseli McKay, Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (University of California Press, 2022), pp. 71, 75, 88–96. Excerpted and reprinted with permission.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

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Cohen, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, coauthor of A Planet to Win , and founding codirector of the progressive climate policy think tank Climate and Community Project, stressed the pragmatic tenor of climate demands today. quienes-somos/. The full quote is “Ever Ever failed. Fail again.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

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Manuel Pastor: I graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with two degrees—one in creative writing and one in economics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015). 1 Steve Dubb: Could you talk about your background and how you came to focus on the study of social movements and economics?