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Author: Gloria Foster

Random Acts of Kindness By New Yorkers

June 21, 2016  Gloria Foster
  • Economy
  • Health

New Yorkers get a bad rep for being selfish and unkind. But last week, three people jumped onto the subway tracks at the City Hall R station to save a man who had fallen on the tracks. A CUNY graduate…

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When Hate Crimes Don’t Matter: Widespread Under-Reporting Masks The Problem

June 14, 2016  Gloria Foster
  • Justice

My pastime of late is reading the New York Times. It reports on issues that both delight and confound me. Among the more confounding, hate crimes, specifically the under-reporting of them. A disturbing example; the hate crime against Ms. Barbara…

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Other People’s Problems

June 2, 2016  Gloria Foster
  • Economy
  • Justice

It is easy to make someone “the other.” I learned this recently in a class on Intersectionality. Race, class, gender, and whatever else we see as forming our identity, “intersect” to create our unique way of looking at the world.…

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