By Gary Cunningham At this point, Black people must be the most well-researched, well-studied, and well-documented people on Earth. Yet on balance, very little changes regarding their socioeconomic condition. Indeed, as Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett document in their recent book The Upswing: How America Came Together a…

For the past three years, NPQ has been exploring the question: Why have conditions for people of color not improved in the past 30 years, despite various DEI and racial justice efforts? Our conversations with leaders of color in the field about what they need to create real social change…

Editors’ note: This article was published online on April 4, 2014, and reprinted in altered form in NPQ’s summer 2014 edition, “21st-Century Communications: Authenticity Matters.” Dr. David Denborough, a pioneer in narrative therapy, says “who we are and what we do” is influenced by the stories we tell about ourselves…

May 8, 2019; Los Angeles Times “Nipsey Hussle’s stretch of Slauson Avenue has largely been overlooked by the gentrification boom that has transformed so many neighborhoods of Los Angeles,” writes Angel Jennings in the Los Angeles Times. …

Whether calling out celebrities or highlighting controversial issues about race, a relatively new but hugely popular campaign is using Instagram to hold altruistic white people accountable. As their name suggests, No White Saviors want to challenge narratives that center white people as the heroes of a story in which people…

April 17, 2019, Mother Jones Can a progressive prosecutor make a difference? Jacob Rosenberg in Mother Jones poses this question in his profile of St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell, who just passed the 100-day mark in office. To win election, Bell defeated Bob McCulloch, who had served as the…

April 4, 2019; New York Post, “Page Six” Affectionately known as “Neighborhood Nip” within his community, Grammy-nominated artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Nipsey Hussle, an Eritrean American born and raised in Los Angeles whose real name was Ermias Asghedom, was fatally shot in South Los Angeles over a personal dispute. In…

March 22, 2019; Vox Seven years ago, Chick-Fil-A, the third-largest fast-food brand in the United States, weathered a public relations hurricane over its more than $2 million in financial support for anti-LGBTQ organizations. …

As an admitted theory head, people who know me know that I love the work of the late Erving Goffman, the sociologist of interactions. Our interest in interactions as an area of study is captured by the proposition that interactions are the micro-units of social organization; in them, we enact…