At the turn of the last century, as urbanization and new technologies in Latin America enabled women to move into the workplace, their new lifestyles, financed by their ability to earn and spend their own money, in turn…

Boko Haram, al Shabaab, al Qeada in the Islamic Maghreb further challenge the nations of sub-Saharan Africa. Adotei Akwei of Amnesty International USA will address how the nations of sub-Saharan Africa have faced the in…

Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology, neurosurgery, and neurology at Stanford University, wonders why do we do the things we do and digs deep in the history of our species and its genetic inheritance to posit answers.

Does our collective American history assign race to some groups, Blacks, Latinos, people of color of various extractions, while assigning a kind of racial neutrality to whiteness? Using James Baldwin's The Fire Next Tim…

Is capitalism a great blessing and a fundamental force for good? Or does it encourage greed? The truth is that both perspectives are onto something. Free enterprise has lifted billions out of poverty worldwide. But whil…

Rolena Adorno, professor of Spanish at Yale University, will discuss the importance of the Spanish language, from its emergence on the world stage at the end of the fifteenth century to its status today as the world's s…