Humanity Archive
Jim Roberts, CEOVoice of our CEO Prison is no place anyone would want to be; restricting, dark, unsafe and punitive. It is a place we isolate a segment of our society whose conduct prevents them from remaining within the larger …
What the Abusers Don’t Want When we go through trauma in childhood, our interpretation can take one of two extremes. It can all seem so random. It can make us feel like the most unlucky people on the planet. How …
Image via By Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D. In a recent article in the American Journal of Bioethics Kayhan Parsi of the Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine exhorted bioethicists to address racism in their work. What the …
Sixto Cancel is in his early 20s, African American, gay, and grew up in several Connecticut foster homes. I am middle aged, a Taiwanese immigrant, a former Girl Scout leader, and I live in Albany, California with my husband and …
We Must Decriminalize Trauma for Girls with Histories of Abuse or Neglect By Neha Desai and Dr. Allison Briscoe-Smith Girls’ involvement in the juvenile justice system is growing disproportionately at a time when arrest rates for boys are declining. And …
At Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Teens Get to Work with Pros on Their Songs By Emma Hernandez NEW YORK — In the Resnick Education Wing 10 floors above the main stages of historic Carnegie Hall, a teenage girl named Breanni stood …
The Obama administration has demonstrated in recent weeks that when it is committed to an issue, it will go to great lengths to make things happen. Take criminal and juvenile justice reform. The president recently initiated a number of policy …
White America Needs a Good Long Hangover By Judge George Timberlake, Ret. | May 4, 2016 Over the decades of a long career, I’ve attended countless professional conferences, and more often than not, I’ve come away reinvigorated with a briefcase …
Following a White House report released in October condemning the use of conversion therapy, Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Patty Murray (D-WA) have introduced legislation to end the harmful practice. The Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act would empower the Federal …
The city of Venice itself is the most significant symbol in Thomas Mann’s story. Even in 1912, when Death in Venice was published, Venice was sinking into the swamp on which in was built, sinking back into the unexpressed in the sense of …
