by Megan Lambert | Feb 16, 2010 | The Public Humanist
"Would I have to ride at the back of the bus?” my beautiful brown-skinned son asked me as we read Faith Ringgold’s If a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks. Rory was six at the time and my heart broke as I contemplated how to answer this question....
by Advocate Staff | Feb 19, 2010 | The Public Humanist
To explain my perspective on the fate or future of television, I need to begin with a story. Several years ago now, I was on a blind date. He was a doctor, by my recollection; handsome, well-educated, funny, a catch by most standards. Things were going well. There was...
by Larry Hott | Feb 22, 2010 | The Public Humanist
According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube. I broke up with my television...
by Beth Hoke | Feb 25, 2010 | The Public Humanist
What does “WIIFM” have to do with fostering interfaith and multicultural understanding? This is a question I asked myself when a public relations consultant volunteered to advise the Steering Committee of the Sharon Pluralism Network (SPN)....
by Wen-ti Tsen | Mar 1, 2010 | The Public Humanist
I was six when I first saw Gone with the Wind at a private screening in 1942. World War II started in China in 1937, with the Japanese invasion – two years before the blitzkrieg, and four years before Pearl Harbor. By 1939, with hundreds of thousands Chinese...
