Baha’i – Page 2

Brown Like Me

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

Salon.com has an interesting piece by Clara Germani about growing up Mexican American. Her story features a tragicomic moment of self-mutilation: When I was 10, I showed up at the breakfast table one ... Read More

I Am George Zimmerman (Sometimes)

Posted on March 28, 2012March 27, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as “I Am George Zimmerman (Sometimes)” on Blogcritics.com Agony and outrage have swept the nation in the wake of the killing of Trayvon Martin. African-American mot... Read More

Love Cannot Be Legislated

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Love Cannot Be Legislated on Blogcritics. The Supreme Court will be taking up the controversial issue of affirmative action this year. Many are concerned that the court will... Read More

Whitney Houston and the Power of Music

Posted on February 21, 2012February 20, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Whitney Houston and the Power of Music on Blogcritics. The news came out of nowhere. I was co-facilitating a weekend seminar for people of African descent at the historic Gr... Read More

American Dreamer

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

The essence of the American Dream can be captured in two words: upward mobility. On more than one occasion, I have written about how for those left behind by the Great Recession, the American Dream ha... Read More

The Ocean of My Words

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

In Man’s Search for Meaning, Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote: “There is nothing in the world…that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditio... Read More

Gene Marks is Right

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Gene Marks Is Right on Blogcritics. Once again, someone has picked up their keyboard and whacked the hornet’s nest of contemporary racial discourse in America. This ti... Read More

Money Cannot Be Eaten

Posted on December 14, 2011December 12, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Money Cannot Be Eaten on Blogcritics. As the last of the Occupy encampments are swept away across the nation, few can fail to recognize that whatever the future of this move... Read More

A Politics of Possibility

Posted on December 11, 2011December 10, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as A Study in Possibility on Blogcritics. It’s a holiday season crowded with crises. An entire continent slouches towards financial free fall, austerity emerges as a new ... Read More

‘Tis the Season to Consume

Posted on November 30, 2011November 30, 2011 by Phillipe Copeland

‘Tis the season to spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. The twelve days of debt are upon us and the annual festival of fights has begun. Apparently pepper spray will be... Read More