Tag: humanities

How Howard Thurman Met Gandhi And Brought Nonviolence to The Civil Rights Movement

Howard Thurman’s image on Howard University chapel’s stained glass window. Fourandsixty from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Thurman was deeply influenced by how Gandhi used non-violence in India’s struggle for independence from British rule.

The Empathetic Humanities Have Much to Teach our Adversarial Culture

Recently discovered prisoner writings on the wall of Lyon’s notorious Montluc prison from which résistant and historian Marc Bloch was taken and executed by the Nazis on the night of the 16 June 1944. A noted historian, Bloch wrote: ‘The task of the historian is understanding, not judging.’ Photo by Bony/AP/Rex.

One poorly chosen phrase can sully an entire work.

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