Saturday, December 21

Tag: tough

No Comments
WEBINAR EDUCATION

Online August 11, 2022: Lead With Courage, Thrive In Tough Conditions With D.J. “Eagle Bear” Vanas

This Thursdsay with D.J “Eagle Bear” Vanas We discuss his new book, The Warrior Within – Own Your Power to Serve, Fight, Protect, and Heal – We will discuss: Why warriors never fight alone and, as entrepreneurs, why we shouldn’t either. What is the Warrior Spirit and how can we apply it to our daily lives. He will cover what should be in your medicine bag. What a Vision Quest is and how we can do it each morning. Speaker DJ “Eagle Bear” Vanas Date & Time Thursday, August 11th, 2022 12:00PM - 1:00PM Central Location: Online Register Now Event Speaker DJ “Eagle Bear” Vanas D.J. Eagle Bear Vanas uses Native American warrior spirit principles to inspire audiences to lead with courage, thrive in tough conditions, and build united, resilient “tribes” -...
Read More
During The Civil Rights Era Black College Presidents Had A Tough Balancing Act
No Comments
SOCIAL JUSTICE

During The Civil Rights Era Black College Presidents Had A Tough Balancing Act

Historians have documented again and again how college students contributed to the civil rights movement. Less attention has been paid to the role college presidents played in the fight for equality. Here, Eddie R. Cole, author of the book “The Campus Color Line,” discusses various ways these leaders contributed. 1. What pressures did college leaders face in the civil rights era? College presidents between 1948 to 1968 had to deal with different segments of society that were at complete odds with one another. On the one hand, they oversaw schools where students were increasingly protesting segregation. But they also had to deal with segregationist politicians who controlled state funding for their institutions. Some of those politicians were not shy about their opposition to the civil rig...
Read More
Echoing A History Of Calls For Companies To Chip In When Times Are Tough, Biden Wants Corporations To Pay For His $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plans
No Comments
BUSINESS

Echoing A History Of Calls For Companies To Chip In When Times Are Tough, Biden Wants Corporations To Pay For His $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plans

President Joe Biden just proposed a roughly US$2 trillion infrastructure plan, which he ambitiously compared to the interstate highway system and the space race. He aims to pay for it solely by taxing companies more, including the first increase in the corporate tax rate since the 1960s. Biden said he wants to increase the rate from 21% to 28% – which would still be below the 35% level it was at before the 2017 tax cut – and strengthen the global minimum tax to discourage multinational corporations from using tax havens. Together, he estimates it would raise the necessary funds to finance his plan over 15 years. “No one should be able to complain about” raising the rate to 28%, Biden said in a speech announcing the plan. “It’s still lower than what that rate was between World War II and ...
Read More
“Big Girls Don’t Cry” – It Takes a Tough Woman to Withstand Harassment in American Politics
No Comments
Journalism

“Big Girls Don’t Cry” – It Takes a Tough Woman to Withstand Harassment in American Politics

"BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY. The Election that Changed Everything for American Women." Rebecca Traister. New York: Free Press. In BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY, Rebecca Traister follows key women involved in the 2008 Presidential election, to tell the story "about the country and its culture, how we all reacted to the arrival of these surprising new figures on the presidential stage and what they showed us about how far we had come and how far we had yet to go." She does an extremely good job of reaching that goal for most of us. Traister basic contexts are gender politics (including but not narrowly defined by feminism and misogyny), race (including but not narrowly defined by racism), and inter-generational perspectives. She observes that Hillary Clinton, who would put 18 million cracks in the highes...
Read More