Documentary Film Queens of Syria
This documentary showcases how a global crisis and personal tragedy can be overcome through literature, writing, and performance.
Nipun Mehta’s TED talk on “Designing For Generosity”
Mehta offers an alternative way to engage in social justice and perceive the world, not as a place of fighting for resources but as a place of sharing resources. Mehta offers several examples of how thinking with generosity rather than greed transforms human interactions.
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In the video above, Cambodians reactive creatively to evictions and government oppression by offering flowers and coordinating humorous dance moves.
“Nikki Rosa,” Nikki Giovanni
In this poem, Giovanni describes a childhood in poverty and how many (white) people might misunderstand what the experience was like.
“Fooling Our White Folks,” Langston Hughes
In this essay, Hughes offers a number of ways Blacks cleverly dealt with prejudice and ignorance by outwitting the system that suppressed them.