by Johnny Silvercloud, The Soul Brother #1 of a Kind from his blog, AfroSapiophile You can also hear Johnny Silvercloud’s podcast at AfroSapiophile [Editor] What I like about Johnny’s work, his photography, blog and podcast, is that he speaks forthrightly to both black and white audiences. He doesn’t speak as though white people are out of the… Read More Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About The Radicalization of Whites?

"There are a lot of F-words, and one of them is fear. And the fear is real right now." Drag queen Fauxnique on feminism and fighting Trump: pic.twitter.com/tlkgabjIab — Fusion (@Fusion) February 1, 2017

In Venezuela, we couldn’t stop Chávez. Don’t make the same mistakes we did. by By Andrés Miguel Rondón January 27 , originally posted in the NYTimes Andrés Miguel Rondón is an economist living in Madrid. He is a Venezuelan citizen who was born and raised there. Hugo Chavez was a populist, too. His opponents never figured out how to… Read More How to Stop a Dictator: End Polarization

I presented the article written by Daniel Wahl on on Gaia Education. If you read through the article carefully, you will notice some terms-of-art that are culturally ‘Buddhist’, although they are not identified as such: ‘inter-being‘, ‘meditation‘, ‘right livelihood‘, and ‘socially-engaged spirituality‘. Granted, most of the terms-of-art used in the article and the teaching syllabus (downloadable for… Read More Gaia Education: Secular Buddhism?

Tricycle is allowing free viewing of video teachings by 13 Buddhists of colour Throughout the month of February. Vimilasara’s teaching on creating ‘true refuge’ for Buddhists of colour, and others marginalized and persecuted by white supremacy, is presented in its entirety. Especially engaging is her ‘parable of the hummingbird and the forest fire’ which teaches… Read More Vimilasara: True Refuge in Dangerous Times