Eboo Patel
President, Interfaith America. Follow @InterfaithUSA. Author, ‘We Need To Build’. Podcast: https://t.co/aQhOpTapZr. [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
philanthropy.com | Eboo Patel
Last week, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker showed what toughness looks like in an era when fighting for a just society is a nonstop endurance test. Booker, one of only 14 African Americans to ever serve in the Senate, spoke against Trump administration policies for more than 25 hours straight without a bathroom break, surpassing Senator Strom Thurmond’s previous record — in that case for a speech opposing civil rights legislation.
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2 weeks ago |
persuasion.community | Eboo Patel
The following is adapted from “An Alternative to Antiracism” published in the recent Diversity issue of SAPIR, a journal of ideas for a thriving Jewish future.
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1 month ago |
chicagotribune.com | Eboo Patel
In 2002, I found out University of Chicago professor Martin Marty was speaking at a fundraising event in Chicago. I was a graduate student at the time, finishing up my doctoral thesis on religion and modernity, and I also was starting my organization Interfaith America, then called Interfaith Youth Core. Marty’s scholarly writings had influenced me profoundly.
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1 month ago |
sapirjournal.org | Eboo Patel
In the fall of 2010, I began opening my public talks with the sentence “Are we entering a new era of American racism?” I would start by laying out the historical facts, from the genocide of Native Americans to the horrors of slavery and the ugliness of antisemitism, and said that there were echoes of that racist past in the Islamophobia we were seeing in the present day.
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1 month ago |
usatoday.com | Eboo Patel
The debate over diversity, equity and inclusion is giving me whiplash. On Jan. 21, a day after his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling on all federal agencies to “to combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.”Then the White House directed federal agencies to put on leave employees who were in DEI roles, including those who had simply attended a diversity training. On Feb.
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Hey @JacobZHess - great @Deseret piece on peacemakers and pluralism builders. Thanks for including me on your list. https://t.co/28YVrPEB9Y
Beautiful interview by @laurencjackson with my friend, the great @kristatippett , on how to talk about religion across lines of difference. https://t.co/1vtEe2foD2
RT @faithangleforum: Great piece from @emmaogreen in @NewYorker featuring @EbooPatel https://t.co/8hqVMYMlky
