Annmarie Hylton
An estimated 114 million people remained forcibly displaced by persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations, and events seriously disturbing public order. More than 1 in 73 people worldwide remained forcibly displaced. That persecution is based on five categories, race, religion, nation
Annmarie Hylton
Absorbing these messages that we are given in society has caused a culture of “self-induced pressure of perfection” that is unsustainable. The fallout of this has manifested in a global mental health crisis that spans young and older generations. One of the consequences that is often seen in many c
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Our climate problem is a consumption problem, that’s the bottom line. We're using too much stuff and discarding it. That TV that I could potentially repair, well Best Buy's having an awesome sale on a 50-inch Samsung TV for $189, I will buy it because I don’t want to spend a Saturday fixing this t
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It's a numbers game rather than a superhero game. When you find other people that care about the same thing that you do, survey the resources and tools you have, and get to know the people who know people, these gifts that we have in our communities tend to get overlooked. The other important thing
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Once upon a long time ago, we lived in a world where the doors weren't locked. If you needed a cup of sugar, you wandered into the house next door. If they weren't home, you let them know you borrowed a cup of sugar. We've gone a long way away from that. People are still longing for the ability to t
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We have a unique model. Whenever I meet somebody, they're shocked that it is an actual house. There have been many things tried just in general with children and families in the last 30 years. But if we look at where and when children were flourishing, it's when we had that whole circle; when we had
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There are currently about 3.9 Billon Women or Girls in the world. Surprisingly the world's global population is almost equal regarding men and women, with men only slightly ahead. Women play a critical role in maintaining the global population and the world's economies by producing the future workfo
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Perhaps there are two periods in your life when you understand love the best, when you are a young child and when you become an older adult. The reason is that as a young child, you look forward to all the people you will learn to love in the future, and as an older adult, you reflect on when you fe
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You ask someone what scent transports you and what they recall. Something as simple as a question like that, I've had people responding from, oh, it's the scent of lemons on Amalfi coast when I was a 21-year-old, and I was in love with a woman. Remembering being a seven-year-old and having her mothe
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“If you ask most people what they want in life or what their next six to 12 months to look like, the most common answer is I don't know. That is a recipe for unhappiness because if you don't know what you want in life, how will you get it? If you don't know what the ideal version of you looks like o
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“We're not even thinking about the people dealing with the cleanup of the messes on the planet each one of us is making. We should be talking about this very critical issue because when we talk about the people who will be impacted by climate change or environmental risks, these are the most import
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“The war doesn't look like a short-term thing. Even if the war were to end tomorrow, unfortunately, it doesn't look like that will happen. We've got disruption in production, which will affect yields as we get through this fall, but we've also got significant damage to the export infrastructure in U
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What made 2020 remarkable is that people still showed up to fight back against injustice regardless of the conditions. We experienced things like the pandemic and the environmental injustices that continue to plague our world. We also saw people say; you know what? I'm going to walk out of this door
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The way I describe racism to my students is that it affects you from the womb to the grave because racism can affect the prenatal care that your mother gets. Think about that; before you've even arrived on the planet, the prenatal care, or lack thereof that your mother gets, how she's treated when s
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A lot of us are rethinking our futures. There's been a lot of lives lost. There's been a loss of security. There's a lot of unrest in our own personal lives that is registering in our society as frustration, anger, feelings of powerlessness, things are changing so rapidly. A lot of people feel power
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If we go back in history and look at the paintings during the 1600s and 1700s, we see that all the fashionable and wealthy people loved to make their hair or wigs curl and stand tall on their heads like modern time Afros. The most memorable person in people’s minds is Marie Antoinette , widely know
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The pandemic has elevated people’s fears related to virus exposure; according to studies from the Pew Research Center, 70% state that their jobs could be done from home. Approximately 25% of workers stated that they were less satisfied with their jobs than pre-pandemic. It is safe to say that this i
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Our mission is to elevate women's voices, particularly from marginalized communities and minority groups in communities. Our key philosophy lies in storytelling. Number one, we aim to give women a safe medium of expression that transcends all cultural, language, or geographical barriers. The second
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Within the larger homeless population, about 38 percent are youths and young adults 18-25 years old. Many of these young people are former foster children who have aged out of the system or left home due to instability. This often-forgotten population is the most vulnerable on the streets since they
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People who make the rules and the policies either don’t have a clear understanding of what it takes to teach, or they clearly don't understand what powerful teaching and learning look like because our system is antiquated. It's not reflective of where we currently are as a society.
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The issue of race has been an issue since America began, and it's the same thing with the juvenile justice system. Unfortunately, the presence of racial disparities has been evident in the system since its inception. Racial disparities are one of the first things that stand out in what the juvenile
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When we go to a place like Machu Picchu or Belize, I tell my travelers when we're using those foreign shampoos and foreign soaps and introducing them into an ecosystem that is not used to it; you are affecting that ecosystem. I want my travelers to be mindful of those things. Depending on which tr
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The U.S. is still by far the largest economy in the world. There undoubtedly other economies rising, in other parts of the world that are developing economically, China is the most prominent. I'm not sure if the rise of China means that the U.S. will be less critical in world affairs or the global e
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Often in our society, we tend to try to be so politically correct and try to please everybody, so we're not defining who we are. People are not accepting the gender roles that we have had since God created Adam and Eve. One thing that I feel people we can turn to is their father. Everyone has a fath
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Happiness is my ability to see myself as imperfect but perfectly, and with that clear vision, I can do all things and continue to work hard and continue to make progress and know that even when things get out of balance sometimes. I love myself and respect myself enough that I can bring it back to t
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You need to tap into history to understand why environmental inequity and injustice primarily impact low-income folks of color. Specifically, one policy from the 1920s called redlining, which continues to shape our cities today, essentially forced residential segregation. Where communities of color,
Annmarie Hylton
There is a huge concern that the wage gap will widen when women are forced out of the workforce and then come back to it. They often cannot command the same earnings as they could before. The wage Gap already was still not closing at any speed, and women of color were being left even further behind.
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The shock of motherhood is brushed over in society with people saying that delivery is not that bad or painful, you will feel instant love once the baby arrives, it is not about you now, and of course, you should hurry to have another one. This lack of acknowledgment has silenced many women until re
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Looking back to the beginning of 2020 in January, I noticed that I longed for something new and different in this new decade like many people. Although I did not expect different, to be so dramatic, this year certainly made me rethink my life and plan.
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The average cost of childcare in the United States is about $1,230 per month ( American Progress ) and the average family income in America is around $50,000 per year making childcare unaffordable for the average family. The reason for the expense comes down to individual child needs, supervision ra
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I think that people in this new decade are going to seek nourishment for themselves in all forms; physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and relationally. The last decade showed everyone that people have not been taking care of themselves, their communities, their families, the environment a
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In today's media, we are confronted almost daily with something about race and oppression. The story usually goes something like this, this person of color was minding their own business when blank came and told them to leave, someone said that them being there was not okay, the N-word or some other
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The irony is that even with this mistrust of companies, when it comes to doing good, Millennials only want to work for companies that focus on doing good or social impact. The Gallup report on How Millennials Want to Work and Live cites working for organizations with a mission and a purpose rank
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The new generation want work to be an extension of who they are, meaning work with a purpose. It’s all different for everybody on how they view work-life balance. What I will say is that the market will demand more flexibilities and companies will have to start thinking about work-life balance diffe
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The explosive growth in technology has obviously changed how we function day to day but, it has been said that it is also changing our minds. Humans along with the human-experience and technology are beginning to merge into one. People are developing mental health conditions as noted in an online ar
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The environmentalist stereotypes most people envision is the hippie, trippy, long-haired white person concerned with vegan food, recycling, carbon footprint reducing, exploring nature and fighting for the animals. This narrow perception according to Drutman, ignores the fact that most people of colo
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According to recent data through Futurecast an agency focused on millennial and Gen Z research, millennials make up about 25% of the U.S. population. As the new upcoming homeowner generation, they have a very different outlook about achieving the American the dream. Since most millennials experience
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The experience of black women is different than white women in America. For black women America is a hostile place due to ingrained racism. I have travelled to almost every region of the U.S. and have yet to find a black woman that sees herself as having a comparable experience to white women at her