List: A More Perfect Union | Curated by Dr. Jarryd Willis PhD

Feb 21, 2025
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A More Perfect Union
Chelsea Hoffman
Yes, Melungeons Are Mixed Race — Even the White-Passing OnesFighting race-erasure is complicated when you’re multiracial with white privilege
Sep 21, 2020
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Sep 21, 2020
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Writers and Editors of Color Magazine
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Dr. Allison Wiltz
Why White Women Benefitted The Most From DEI ProgramsContrary to popular belief, Black people were not the primary beneficiaries
Jan 29
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Jan 29
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Age of Empathy
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Claire K. Yu
Well-Intentioned Compliments Appalled My Gen-Alpha ChildrenWe propagate implicit bias through everyday language
Sep 13, 2024
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Sep 13, 2024
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Prism & Pen
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Natalie S. Ohio
Struggling Parents of LGBTQ+ People: What We Wish You KnewAn open letter to parents with LGBTQ+ kids who are finding their new reality challenging
May 16, 2024
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May 16, 2024
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Prism & Pen
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Natalie S. Ohio
It’s Not Just LGBTQ People’s Duty to Come Out and Change the WorldThe importance of allyship and why educating the masses on right from wrong is everybody’s responsibility.
Sep 18, 2023
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Sep 18, 2023
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ZORA
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Whitney Alese
In 2020, Black People were asked to lead. A few years later, we are now being fired for it.2020 felt like the beginning of the long awaited, much fought for change the US needed.
Jan 21, 2024
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Jan 21, 2024
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ILLUMINATION
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Aure's Notes
Adding More Black People in Commercials Won’t Solve Racial InequalitiesIt’s a good first step but it’s not enough.
Apr 26, 2024
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Apr 26, 2024
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Writers and Editors of Color Magazine
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Dr. Allison Wiltz
Why White Math is Embracing Racism Despite the Cost to AmericaDespite racism costing America trillions, many White people want to maintain the racial hierarchy.
Oct 8, 2023
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Oct 8, 2023
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Natalie S. Ohio
The Hygiene Olympics Has Black People in a ChokeholdIn a world where systemic racism affects the optics of cleanliness, can the Black community ever take home the gold?
Jul 13, 2023
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Jul 13, 2023
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Fourth Wave
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Sangeeta Kalsi
No, Our Interracial Relationship is Not Your “Biological Erasure”On the disdain and desperation around Asian women with White men
Jan 15, 2024
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Jan 15, 2024
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An Injustice!
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Jerren Gan
Without Affirmative Action, Other Things Have to Come and Go As WellNavigating the Path to Equality of Opportunity
Jul 5, 2023
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Jul 5, 2023
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Practice in Public
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Jeff Robbins
How to Build a Doomsday CultOr the insider’s roadmap to making your idea a killer.
Jul 7, 2023
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Jul 7, 2023
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Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists
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Dance/USA Fellowships to Artists
‘What Are You?’ Dancemaking and the Hyphenated OtherThree dance artists with indigenous and immigrant identities share their perspectives on making and describing their art.
Oct 6, 2020
Oct 6, 2020
Henry OConnell
Lessons on Integration From Around the CountryAs SFUSD redesigns our elementary school assignment policy, one of our primary goals is to create integrated elementary schools that…
Oct 6, 2020
Oct 6, 2020
Henry OConnell
Facing Our Past, Changing Our Future, Part I: A Century of Segregation in San Francisco Unified…“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” - James Baldwin
Sep 16, 2020
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Sep 16, 2020
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Your NativeFriend
My DNA is actually different from yoursNative American DNA is different from European DNA
Apr 18, 2023
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Apr 18, 2023
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Dr. Sawsan Jaber
An Open Letter to Educators about RamadanDear Equitable Educator,
Mar 22, 2022
Mar 22, 2022
Ambassador Power(Archive)
You Are What America Looks LikeWhat I said to 15 new American citizens at their Naturalization Ceremony in New York City
Nov 16, 2016
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Nov 16, 2016
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Dr. Jill Biden
A Prayer for a Hundred Thousand DeadAs the ventilators turn off, a hundred thousand last breaths blow through our towns like a hurricane. Even with the windows boarded up…
May 27, 2020
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May 27, 2020
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An Injustice!
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Dorothy Hines, Ph. D.
LSU’s Angel Reese is Every Black Woman in AmericaTired of double standards when we are unapologetically ourselves
Apr 4, 2023
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Apr 4, 2023
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