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Hispanic Heritage Month — OPINION: Why it’s Significant to the U.S.A.
Hispanic Heritage Month 2020 is celebrated in the United States from Sept. 15th through to Oct. 15th. It commemorates the independence of many Latin American countries from Spain. This year more than ever, however, I can’t help but reflect on what it means to be Latinx/Hispanic in these times.
Publisher’s Letter: 2020- Unprecedented Times & Personal Reflections.
5 MINUTE READ “These are unprecedented times…”We’ve heard the words drip from the lips of so many as COVID-19 ravaged through countries around the world. Amidst the turmoil, came Black Lives Matter (#BLM), a movement that resurged in the United […]
WHERE AM I FROM? Cultural fluency through a child’s book.
1 MINUTE READ Author Elisavet Arkolaki and her family are from everywhere. Passionate about travel and inspired by global learning, she raises her children in-between countries, cultures and languages. She writes to build cultural understanding and sensitivity in young children […]
Part VI of VI: What Blackness Looks Like- I WANT TO BREATHE:
As I reflect upon what it still means to be black, or a person of color in the United States of America (U.S.), I think about the sleepless nights I have experienced being concerned for my black and multiracial children (especially after we returned from living overseas).
Part III of VI: What Blackness Looks Like- WHAT COLOR IS ACCEPTABLE?
I have always known I was black (the term of the time) but it was never an issue and more of a marking of my physical identity, no difference. There were no presumptions or idea of who I am. “I am Sonja — want to be friends?
CoVid-19 – How to Survive Through the Eyes of ESSENTIAL WORKERS
Part VI of VI: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES DURING CoVid-19. – U.S.A., ISRAEL, JAPAN, CANADA. 13 MINUTE READ As the world waits for the effects of CoVid-19 to subside, essential workers are helping society keep our civilization afloat. Through the eyes of […]
Part I of VI: WHAT BLACKNESS LOOKS LIKE- STOP TRYING TO DILUTE OR EXPLAIN AWAY MY TRUTH.
A NIGERIAN WORLD TRAVELER LIVING IN THE U.K. SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT. STOP TRYING TO DILUTE OR EXPLAIN AWAY MY TRUTH.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE “WHITE FRAGILITY” — WITH AUTHOR ROBIN DIANGELO
Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.”The book is arguably one of today’s most essential primers on racism and its foundation of white supremacy.
