Thompson Coburn LLP
Aaron’s practice is dedicated entirely to helping institutions of higher education navigate complex legal and regulatory matters. He has significant experience in the array of federal, state, and accrediting agency laws and standards that govern postsecondary institutions, and is a frequent writer and speaker on topics relating to higher education policy and the federal financial aid programs.
In 2018, Aaron served the U.S. Department of Education as one of 17 negotiators charged with overhauling the Department s complex and controversial borrower defense rule. The Department selected Aaron to represent and negotiate on behalf of general counsels, attorneys and compliance officers at postsecondary institutions nationwide.
Kumea Shorter-Gooden, an equity, diversity and inclusion consultant, will give a workshop designed for members of faculty search committees to learn about effective and fair hiring practices.
By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
-Imamu Amiri Baraka
White supremacy and systematic racism left Black people as one of the most oppressed groups in America. Many Afrikan American leaders came forward to help liberate Black people from centuries of socioeconomic disparities caused by racial discrimination. During the high levels of the Black Liberation Movement in the 1950s to the early 1970s, Civil Rights and Black power became the world wide rallying call for social justice. We as Afrikan people in the United States have been in a protracted struggle to protect our blackness and our humanity ever since 1619. That is the year Black people arrived on the American shores in chains. Like millions of Afrikans before us, we were kidnapped in Afrika and forced into an European-American slave making system that totally disconnected us from our land, language, and culture for the sole purpose to be exploited by whiteness and capitalism. But Afrika’s children were not the only thing European
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If you put self-care on the back burner in 2020, you’re hardly alone. This past year was undeniably stressful, with strange event after strange event happening on the regular (a global pandemic, an election that seemed to last eons, mass unemployment ― and that’s just chipping the surface).
Given all of that, many of us just focused on getting through the day. Even therapists slipped on self-care a bit. But a new year gives us a chance to reengage with healthier habits and practices that boost our mental and physical well-being.
Below, therapists share the healthy habits they’re doubling down on in 2021.
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Centuries of White supremacy and systematic racism left Black people in America in an oppressed condition. Many Afrikan American leaders came forward to help liberate Black people from racial discrimination. During the heightened conscious levels of the Black Liberation Movement in the 1950s to the early 1970s, Civil Rights and Black power became the worldwide rallying call for justice. We as Afrikan people in the United States have been left in a protracted struggle for blackness ever since 1619. In Afrika, and throughout the Afrikan diaspora, systematic racism made us believe that we have no history of being the very first people on the planet earth that initiated humanity, civilization, religion, and culture. But some Black leaders came forward to rebuild Afrikan Americans through Afrikan centered cultural empowerment and for Black political power. A respected Los Angeles, California community activist named Ronald McKinley Everett, an advocate for pan Afrikan self -det