The Forgotten Tale of How Black Psychiatrists Helped Make ‘Sesame Street’

An enormous number of people have influenced my thinking, but three were particularly important: William Braud, Barbara Babcock, and Edmund Leach. Parapsychologist William Braud integrated an enormous range of findings with his model of lability and inertia in psi processes. Barbara Babcock is the most significant interpreter of the trickster figur

Play helps people of all ages learn how to interact with their environment, activate more of their whole mind, experiment with new ways of seeing themselves and being seen by others, create their own knowledge of the world, and shape their space in it.

Could it be that centuries of systematic dehumanization has left white people incapable of feeling empathy for Black people?

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, the developmental psychologist Howard Gardner