As part of the series: Is Socialism the Answer? Dr. Bill Sales will speak on the topic: The Ideology and Practice of Racism in the Modern World: an exploration of the origin and development of a pernicious idea and several of its present permutations at our next HUMANITAS: The Africana Ethical Society meeting to be held on…

Join us as we explore leadership ideas of imagination, intuition, and meaning-making. (Please note the 3 p.m. start time.) Be a part of this platform designed by Jé and brought to you by thoughts for, and appreciation of, his unique gifts to humanism. Louise Jett will also be welcomed as an emerging Leader in the…

The next ECSW Book Group Meeting will be held via Zoom on Monday, August 10 at 2 pm.  The selection is “The Water Dancer” by Ta-Nehisi Coates.   Email Leader Bart Worden to learn how to join us on Zoom: Leader@ethicalsocietywestchester.org.

Boomers think Millennials are entitled and whiny; Millennials think Boomers are smug and out-of-touch; Zennials laugh at Millennials’ obsession with Harry Potter; And everyone forgets about Gen X. Why do people of different generations seem to hate each other so much? What’s the cause of the generational conflict? Are generations really a good way of…

We’re joining the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island Society Sunday, 7/19 at 11 a.m., and you’re invited. If you love poetry or are a poet yourself and would like to share your work, please join us for our annual Poetry Sunday. Introduced by Linda Napoli, Poetry Coordinator for Long Island’s Sunday meetings, participants are…

Resistance is useful when we’re trying to push back at a force that would make life worse. Resisting implies that the status quo is working for us, for others. But what if we want to make life better than it has been? What if instead of defending the world as we know it, what we…

The American Ethical Union 105th Assembly will be online using Zoom. • July 11-27 – AEU will host discussion sessions to review agenda items.• July 28-31 – AEU will share educational programming.• Saturday, August 1 – AEU Assembly Business Meeting.• Sunday, August 2 – AEU special platform welcoming Jé Hooper as a new Ethical Culture…

Othering is, I believe, a necessary precursor to oppression. “Othering” involves what the sociologist Yiannis Gabriel has described as “casting a group, an individual or an object into the role of the ‘other’ and establishing one’s own identity through opposition to and, frequently, vilification of this Other.” It has two parts: setting one apart from…

Structural racism is a powerful force spread across multiple systems and institutions and is extremely pernicious and resilient. White people are the source and the sustainers of structural racism and recreate it every day when they are silent about police “protection,” seek out “good” schools, allow monetized healthcare, “integrate” neighborhoods through the displacement of gentrification……