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#InContext: Pope Francis

#InContext: Pope Francis

“Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.”– Pope Francis Before Pope...

#InContext: Yaa Gyasi

#InContext: Yaa Gyasi

“[W]hen you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you...

#InContext: Nelson Mandela

#InContext: Nelson Mandela

“Pulling the branch of a tree” — this is the literal English translation of Nelson Mandela’s Xhosa birth name, Rolihlahla. While Mandela proclaimed...

#InContext: Gary Haugen

#InContext: Gary Haugen

Reflecting on history, what is most perplexing and indefensible are “the simple failures of compassion.” In these failures, we watch societies...

#InContext: John Lewis

#InContext: John Lewis

2020 has been marked with a renewed racial reckoning in the United States. It has also been a year in which leaders of the Civil Rights Movement of...