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In the fall of 1970, the Black feminist poet, teacher, and activist June Jordan traveled to Italy as a Rome Prize recipient in the category of Environmental Design ( We’re On 153).1 She was awarded the prize for work that grew out of her collaboration with the architect R. Buckminster Fuller. Jordan’s connection with Fuller began in 1964, when Jord... See more
“Harlem Will Widen from River to River”: Environmental Justice and ...
The age of the Well-Bred Man was vanishing. The age of the Cognitive Elite was here.
David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
have the means to do that.
Vernon Jordan Jr • Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
During this formative time, she developed the roots of what one historian has called her “ecosocial” interpretation of the built environment, which considered architecture and the built environment to be an extension and manifestation of human ecology.5 This preference for the social led her to elevate Buckminster Fuller’s ecological utopianism ove... See more
Aggregate – Black Spaces Matter
number of new sources,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Similarly, if we wanted to firmly establish the Urban League as a civil rights organization, we also had to develop and maintain a recognizable and steady presence in the national community-to let the country know what we
Vernon Jordan Jr • Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
THE PEOPLE QUESTION
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Power members/top advocates