Kemp & Bodine As the world experiences climate change, countries in the Middle East face a looming issue that offers no perfect solution: water scarcity.
Climate change lectures don’t usually start with poetry. Katharine Wilkinson’s did, this one by David Whyte. “Sometimes / if you move carefully / through the
Figueres Long before Christiana Figueres spearheaded the 2015 Paris Agreement as U.N. Executive Secretary for the U.N.’s Climate Change Convention, she was a teenager admiring
During President George W. Bush’s second term, Katharine Wilkinson noticed people were talking past each other, not to each other, about climate change — even
Bipartisan interest — as well as great public demand — in environmental protection spurred the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in the late 1960s.
Ariana Curtis, curator of Latinx studies at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, speaks about race and culture in museum spaces
Bird Runningwater, director of the Sundance Institute Indigenous Program, delivers his lecture "Indigenous Perspectives on Cinema" Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019 in the Amp. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO
Runningwater In a 1981 snapshot of Robert Redford and filmmakers — including Chris Spotted Eagle, of the Houmas Nation, and Larry Littlebird, of the Laguna
Lewis In 1926, high school junior Shadrach Emmanuel Lee asked his Brooklyn public high school history teacher why their textbooks featured no African Americans. Lee’s
Wynton Marsalis, managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and world-renowned trumpeter and composer, speaks about "The Ever Fonky Lowdown" Monday, Aug. 19,
Wynton During most performances with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, trombonist Chris Crenshaw sits right in front of the organization’s managing and artistic director,
Founder of the "Me Too" Movement, Tarana Burke speaks about how the movement got started by saying "Community problems need a community response and that's
Burke During his presidency, Barack Obama had one of his favorite historical quotes, which originated from Theodore Parker in the 19th century and made popular