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One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the 20th century. The Jamaican-born African American rights advocated dismayed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers. Of him, Martin Luther King, Jr.,ContinueContinue reading “Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey”

The vast majority of theft, extortion, intimidation, harassment, assault, and even murder – in other words, the vast majority of man’s inhumanity to man – comes not from the greed, hatred and intolerance that lurks in our hearts. Rather, it comes from one pernicious and almost universal assumption, one unquestioned belief, one irrational, self-contradictory superstition:ContinueContinue reading “Most Dangerous Superstition”

An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls “the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction.”It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths,ContinueContinue reading “Book of the Day “The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake””

 Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America – more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues inContinueContinue reading “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America”