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On June 19, 1865, union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation that had been issued some two and a half years earlier. More than 150 years later, President Joe ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson will speak in Burlington, Vermont as part of a Diversity Speaker Series. Wilkerson won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and is known for her books ...

Jan 20 (Reuters) - For Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated director Ava DuVernay, creating the biographical film “Origin” was an emotional quest that helped her connect with Isabel Wilkerson, the author ...

Based on Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste, DuVernay's film draws a line between India's caste system, the hierarchies of Nazi Germany and the... With 'Origin,' Ava DuVernay illuminates America's racial ...

When filmmaker Ava DuVernay first read Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned, she reread it twice. The bestselling book draws a line between India's ...

Isabel Wilkerson returns to Boston College to speak of caste, at lecture co-sponsored by Winston Center “Caste is essentially an artificial, arbitrary, graded ranking of society. It is what determines ...

Every Spring I teach "Cognitive-Behavior Therapy" to college undergraduates who are mostly intending to become psychologists, clinical social workers or teachers. I am always on the lookout for ...