Reed is the historian who introduced the world to Sally Hemings and the children she had with President Thomas Jefferson, and so realigned a primary chapter of the American story with the deeper, more complicated truth.
Over cups of tea and the experience of bringing people together, he says it becomes possible to talk with each other and be in the same room with the people we talk about.
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The real story of ten terrorists, who sail to Mumbai and wage war on the populace for the next 72 hours.
But when she looked back on her childhood near the end of her life, she realized her family's Kikuyu culture had imparted her with an intuitive sense of environmental balance.
For the millions of people who have read his book Being Mortal, he's also opened new conversations about the ancient human question of death and what it might have to do with life.
Giving you total freedom over the way your photos are displayed by cropping, resizing or adding effects to them.
Therapist Esther Perel has changed our discourse about sexuality and coupledom with her TED talks, books, and singular podcast, Where Should We Begin?
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If you consider that most children start kindergarten at 5 years of age, you have more time than you think!
His life traced an incredible arc; he was born three years after the end of the Civil War and died on the eve of the March on Washington.
The late Wangari Maathai was a biologist, environmentalist, and the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
We still work with the old idea that we should check the messy parts of ourselves at the door of our professional lives.
We take that poetry as a lens on her wisdom on the great dramas of our time: ecological, political, personal.
And they see the next generation challenging our cultural view of success by insisting that a deeply satisfying life is one filled with presence, vulnerability, and care for others.
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Jericho Brown reminds us to bear witness to the complexity of the human experience, to interrogate the proximity of violence to love, and to look and listen closer so that we might uncover the small truths and surprises in life.
He is influenced by the Jewish historian Gershom Scholem, who resurrected Kabbalah from obscurity in the 20th century and made it accessible to modern people.
We continue to work through changes in light of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect May 25, 2018.
He leads the Corrymeela community of Northern Ireland, a place that has offered refuge since the violent division that defined that country until the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Gawande is on the frontiers of human agency and meaning in light of what modern medicine makes possible.
