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White Identity & Shame of Poverty

In Commentary / Opinion by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

Carl Jung said that shame is a soul eating emotion. In his New York Times opt Ed piece, Raising A Moral Child, contributor Adam Grant explained why Carl Jung wrote that about shame. The difference between shame and guilt is …

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Unfriended

In Commentary / Opinion by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

Recently a colleague of mine “unfriended” me from Facebook and refuses to speak to me or even acknowledge me when I am in their presence, all because they discovered that we hold diametrically opposing views on the subject of homosexuality. I …

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It All Starts with Binah

In Anecdotal Notes by NKROO-muh STOO-erd

My family begins in America with an adolescent girl named Binah, my 6th great grandmother, an enslaved African who had her first child, a boy, at the age of 12 in 1778. Binah was owned by a man named Darling …