Joan Chittister, Benedictine Sister of Erie, Pennsylvania, said communication is the base of everything that humans do. Chittister “We don't know one another, but by the time this conversation ends, we'll know one another relatively
All humans are susceptible to changes in mood, taste and ideology. Grandparents may listen to country one day and rock ‘n’ roll the next. Children always seem to want a new adventure. Unfortunately, these little
A video circulated around the internet of former President Barack Obama calling President Donald Trump a “dipshit” and making references to the movies “Black Panther” and “Get Out.” “Now, you see, I would never say
David Danks, head of the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, said if artificial intelligence is used in the United States to prevent crime or arrest more people, the AI would most likely target
When she was studying for her Ph.D. at Cambridge, Rana el Kaliouby, CEO of Affectiva, realized she was spending more time with technology than with any human being. “I realized that this machine was emotion
The online world started to take shape in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, and many people felt that technology would stop the censorship and oppression seen in Soviet Union
Aaron Bryant, curator of photography and visual culture at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, will never forget the first time he visited a museum. In his art class in fifth grade,
Fifty years ago when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act, he wanted to create an organization that acted in the public interest. “Time and time again, we need to remind ourselves and come
Rose Systemic racism has existed in the United States since the country’s founding, and yet, just five years ago, Tricia Rose found that the term was barely used. “I would find over and over again
Art may seem useless when society itself is going through great change, especially in the midst of a worldwide pandemic that has killed 138,000 Americans, and people are marching through the streets to protest systemic
David Moss keeps a stack of pizza boxes as storage containers in his studio in Jerusalem, “and each pizza box (has) a project or idea that I want to do that may be almost finished,
Smith Anna Deavere Smith grew up in Baltimore in de facto segregation — legislation did not overtly segregate students by race, but school segregation continued. Her grandfather told her “if you say a word often
The song of American urbanization is played on an accordion, “in and out, in and out,” said Derek Thompson, senior writer at The Atlantic. “Americans compressed themselves into urban areas in the early 20th century.
Uncle Sam is a meme, “an idea, that's sort of like a piece of DNA,” said Joan Donovan. “It gets transmitted, usually through people, but also through media, and it spreads between people.” A meme
When the Senate investigated decades of work from the FBI and CIA in 1976, they found that these agencies looked into more than half a million Americans who were involved in political activities protected by
Donovan After the Christchurch mosque shootings in March 2019, many news agencies reported on the shooter’s philosophies, rather than the victims’ stories. The attacks were streamed live on Facebook, and social media platforms were roundly