Facing Our History, Including "Black History", With Courage
On the brink of yet another European war and another American civil war, I'm sharing a YouTube link to a visual representation of Maya...
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Ted Small
Feb 6, 20211 min
Black History Month...Still Struggling.
Black History Month offers us a time to reflect upon the many contributions that African Americans have made to make the USA a more...
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Ted Small
Jan 3, 20211 min
Equal Voting Rights for ALL....154 Years and Counting.
Today marks the 154th anniversary of when (on 1/3/1867) Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (PA) and Senator Charles Sumner (MA) began leading...
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Ted Small
Nov 7, 20201 min
America! America! God mend thine every flaw....
Sharing on this momentous evening "America the Beautiful", first popularized in 1895 as a poem by educator, Katharine Lee Bates and then...
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Ted Small
Sep 20, 20201 min
R.I.P. Notorious RBG
In memory of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who advocated for over 60 years as a lawyer and jurist to establish gender...
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Ted Small
Jun 3, 20201 min
Facilitating Improved Community Policing During Covid
Racial Reconciliation More Important Now Than Ever Before
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Ted Small
Mar 3, 20202 min
Asking the right questions for effective "diversity" audits.
Asking the right questions is more than half the battle of finding ways to effectuate an organization’s diversity goals.
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Ted Small
Jan 20, 20201 min
Dr. MLKJr Day reflection on cross-racial relationships and collaborations
10 “Freedom Songs—Diverse Voices” to inspire your reflection and your leadership in this LONG journey towards equal justice under law
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Ted Small
Nov 23, 20197 min
A role for churches in overcoming "trauma from the 'Doctrine of Discovery'"
“Most Americans are not overtly racist, but we live in a systemically racist nation with systemically racist institutions…. anti-racism...
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Ted Small
May 29, 20192 min
Backstory on reparations and American history
Dear Neighbors, Google BackstoryRadio.org and reparations to listen to an hour and fifteen minute scholarly synopsis of the history of...
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Ted Small
Apr 7, 20192 min
White Fragility, NYT bestseller promoting meaningful cross-racial dialogue
Dear Neighbors, When Color Line Roundtable participant, Tracy Lunquist first e-mailed me expressing her interest in leading a group...
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Ted Small
Mar 29, 20191 min
Just imagine....more IMAGINATION
Dear Neighbors: In reading through the morning news, I “LOVED” Tom Popomaronis's CNBC.com article, J.K. Rowling's greatest advice to...
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Ted Small
Jan 17, 20192 min
Dr. King's unfinished pursuit of "equal justice for all"
As we approach the Dr. MLK Jr. national holiday on Monday, consider below a text message that I shared with family and friends earlier...
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Ted Small
Dec 14, 20183 min
HOW we the people can bring about more justice in our America
Dear Neighbors, Until today I had no intention of interrupting this festive holiday season with any serious statement on what are the...
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Ted Small
Oct 28, 20181 min
Reuniting America--Diverse Voices
To comfort those who are grieving in the wake of the Pittsburgh PA synagogue massacre and Jeffersontown, KY killings, and those who are ...
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Ted Small
Oct 6, 20181 min
Collaborative Freedom Speeches--Diverse Voices
Surrounded by signs that our nation is deeply divided along political/economic/social/racial lines, I was at first drawn to detach and...
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Ted Small
Aug 11, 20181 min
Reflections on Charlottesville in Poetry--Diverse Voices
Reflecting on the one-year anniversary of the racialized violence in Charlottesville VA and the fact that Charlottesville and other...
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Ted Small
Apr 4, 20183 min
Basis for our "inescapable network of mutuality"
Good evening Neighbors, At the end of this infamous day in the history of our struggle for freedom and justice, I write to share a quote...
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Ted Small
Oct 11, 20173 min
Avoiding another Charlottesville--facilitation hypothetical
A few weeks ago on a college campus in a city not too far away, construction workers unearthed a bronze equestrian statue of Confederate...
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Ted Small
Aug 11, 20172 min
Toolkit for our collaboration to eliminate poverty
Dear Neighbors, This Toolkit for Communities to Develop and Operationalize Local Anti-Poverty Agendas embodies some of the best...
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