Tag: Justice

Ihad the pleasure of interviewing: Eli Brown. After struggling with his own mental health and addiction issues, in 2016 Eli Brown founded Shine The Light On, a clothing company designed to bring awareness and a voice to those struggling with mental illness. At just twenty-two years old, he founded S...

My work in the field of trauma and psychological healing has led me to explore various approaches that aim not only to address the symptoms of trauma but also to create a deeper, more meaningful healing process. One such approach, restorative justice, is, I believe, a promising path for healing t...

On December 15, 1890, Louis Brandies and Samuel Warren published what is generally considered the most influential law review article ever written: The Right to Privacy, Harvard Law Review. Brandeis, later to become an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote most of the article, b...

Over 150 staff have participated in Wellcome Collection’s unique, bespoke Social Justice Curriculum (SJC). What have we learned about the impact of this significant personal, professional and collective learning journey led by facilitators with lived and learned experience? This article will r...

Isaac Dee Kelly, aka“Dee” as he was known to friends, was a prominent doctor who had arranged a good marriage (2, 18). His beautiful wife Kathleen, equally as powerful, a beloved daughter of an oil tycoon. They seemed the perfect union. Kelley was descended from those that founded the Fr...

You come to this world thinking there will be blacks and whites, don’t you? One line separating the wrongs from the rights? You come to this world thinking that; and then one day, color happens. You meet the greens, the reds, the blues and the grays; you walk and walk, and discover orange. ...

Thanks to the likes of Butler and Monáe, my own interest in science fiction has started to pique. As someone whose work is entirely pre-occupied with matters of social justice, and the intersections of race, class, gender and state violence, in many ways, engaging with an Afro-futurist future...

It was less than two weeks after my birthday, nearly 70 years ago, on May 17, 1954, that Chief Justice Earl Warren issued a unanimous ruling of the Supreme Court that school segregation was inherently unconstitutional. Thus ended nearly 60 years of “separate by equal” schooling...

My family is Jewish and middle-income, from Miami, Florida. Because my parents valued my education, they encouraged me to attend a private high school. I was only able to do this by applying for and receiving financial aid. On the other hand, most of my high school friends were from wealthy families...