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Notley Tide presents Upholding the Status Quo: The Model Minority Myth & Its Role in the U.S. Many events have been canceled or postponed due to coronavirus concerns. Please check with the organization before going to any event. Dr. Peniel Joseph
Photo courtesy of Dr. Peniel Joseph Notley Tide and University of Texas at Austin’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy are partnering on a virtual community conversation, Upholding the Status Quo: The Model Minority Myth and its Role in the U.S. The conversation features panelists Dr. Eric Tang (Associate Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department and director of the Center for Asian American Studies), Dr. Peniel Joseph (Founding Director of CSRD), Elise Hu (Ted Talks Daily, NPR), and moderated by Minh Vu (Director of Strategic Programs, Notley)
Smith was first introduced to mindfulness meditation the practice of watching your thoughts, feelings, and sensations without judgment in the second grade. “I wasn’t necessarily a troubled kid, but sometimes I had a lot of anger,” Smith recalls. “I remember being a little confused about it, like,
Why we gotta sit and be quiet? But with more consistency, I started to be able to observe myself and became more aware of what I was actually feeling, like,
You’re not angry you’re actually sad.”
In the fall of 2012, when Smith left her home in the south suburbs of Chicago for Indiana University in Bloomington, she suddenly found herself “running around every waking hour” as a science major, president of her university’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and an employee at the financial aid office.
Black Voices: More professors needed in African American and African Diaspora Studies department idsnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from idsnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.