by Joao Chaves | Sep 3, 2021 | News
Demographic and social trends show that our increasingly diverse world will continue to become more complex. In the U.S., 70% of the largest cities are more racially and ethnically diverse today than they were 10 years ago. For example, in Louisville, Kentucky, from...
by Joao Chaves | Jul 2, 2020 | Opinion
Education in the U.S. has a special place in the minds of people around the world. The resources of U.S. schools are a major reason for the way in which they capture the imagination of foreigners like me. Access to large, well-staffed libraries, exposure to...
by Joao Chaves | Jun 17, 2020 | Opinion
I am looking at my bookshelves as I write this. The books that were required for my seminary training are arranged in particular shelves, easy to find. If these books were people standing in my living room, I would be surrounded by dozens of white men and two...
by Joao Chaves and Malcolm Foley | Jun 3, 2020 | Opinion
The last few days have filled our memories with more blood of unarmed black men and women. Ahmaud Arbery’s, Breonna Taylor’s and George Floyd’s lives were taken in front of us in an outrageous spectacle of monstrosity that reveals the worst tendencies of our white...
by Joao Chaves | May 12, 2020 | Opinion
Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro are among the world leaders who minimized the dangers of COVID-19. In the United States, President Trump continued to downplay the novel coronavirus in January and February, even as the threat the virus posed was continuously emphasized...
