... Dr. Snyderman outlines the advances made in race and gender equality. He describes efforts within the Duke University Medical System, and also partnerships with local organizations. He provides brief biographies of staff who were at the forefront of ensuring equity and diversity. Race...

... speechifying audience kinship diverse communities African proverbs ...

... and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” she focuses on Coretta Scott King's activism to champion the rights of women and people within the LGBT community. Finally, in her 2015 speech in New Orleans, she outlines the benefits of study abroad and the need for more students from diverse communities to take...

... of leaders, heroes, and sheroes, sharing personal experiences, and ending speeches with stories and moral lessons. speechifying audience kinship diverse communities African proverbs ...

...Reading, Watching, and Listening in Buenos Aires Part V, “Reading, Watching, and Listening in Buenos Aires,” traces porteños ’ longtime fascination with the written word and the city’s prolific media production. It reconstructs how diverse communities generated a powerful print industry...

... communities. Seen through an ethnographic approach, the political performance of Afro-religious people has given rise to a contemporary model of activism based on sociocultural diversity of religious practices. Such a scenario enabled a reconfiguration of the global fight against racism, not aligning entirely...

... , but revealed health inequities and challenged the fatal effects of health/communicative inequities, providing a model for decolonizing health and health communication. The multiple ways health/communicative inequities structure health systems produce nonknowledge as systematically as they provide evidence...

... and accommodated diverse bodies of Black Atlantic worshippers and enabled disparate religious identities to cohabitate in a single communal space. Black churches, however, were not impervious to interdenominational rivalries. Black ministers routinely challenged one another’s authority and competed for members...

... the local communities in this vast and diverse region. Hausa-Fulani Muslims Sokoto Caliphate Church Missionary Society Christian-educated elites Yoruba region  ...

... This chapter explores the diverse strategies applied by farmer communities, social organizations, and NGOs in the north of Peru to resist the plans of the Río Blanco mining company to exploit minerals in their territories. Both contentious strategies of direct action and protest...

... diversity and conflict within the black collective, working to facilitate a sense of black community despite difference. Through its producer, Ellis Haizlip, Soul! expressed a belief in the power of black performance to sustain this community in the face of ongoing political, social, and spiritual crisis...

... an active and enthusiastic VR community took shape. While the VR community is heterogeneous and global, in LA there was a persistent conversation about not only VR’s potential to be a good technology but also the necessity of VR being a diverse and inclusive industry. Against the rise of Trumpism...

... Describes Rosemarie’s childhood in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Southside Chicago, an economically diverse African American community where dozens of her relatives lived and where many of the inhabitants were recent immigrants from the South. The chapter discusses Rosemarie’s experiences...

... to their exclusion from the exhibition, with special emphasis on a project by the BAD Foundation. The chapter shows how, although the art biennial initially failed to represent Rotterdam's artistic diversity by limiting its alliances to established cultural institutions, it ultimately acknowledged cries...

... 2011 speech at Ohio State University, she argues that “excellence in education is only possible if there is diversity.” In “Lessons from the Life and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” she focuses on Coretta Scott King's activism to champion the rights of women and people within the LGBT community...

... Practice Summer Institute in Guelph, Canada, over a dozen improvisers explored new ways of connecting, communicating, improvising, discussing, and writing about their embodied banding improvisations. Nine diverse voices, in addition to Hahn’s observations, serve as examples of embodied experiences...

... Chapter 4 excavates how mosques acted as crucial sites in which diverse Comorian migrants materialized their presence in the early to mid-twentieth century. Well into the 1940s, prospering Comorian communities prioritized mosque construction and other communitarian building projects as key means...