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Michelle Obama and Ellen DeGeneres talk fear on the latest episode of Obamas Audible podcast, The Light We Carry.

The conversation about fear comes up in The Light We Carrys fourth episode, called Decoding Fear. Both women discuss how fear has played a part in their lives.

The post Michelle Obama Discusses Fear With Ellen DeGeneres: They Took The Image Of A Smart Black Woman And Turned It Into A Threat appeared first on Blavity.

According to the official description:

Ellen DeGeneres and Michelle discuss the role fear plays in their liveswhy its important, the people who would weaponize it, and ways to turn the things that terrify you into rocket fuel. Michelle also tells the story of being forced to decide whether her husband would run for president and the time that inviting a Star Wars character to the White House ended up scarring one of her daughters. Plus, a special lesson on starting kind.

In the exclusive clip embedded below, DeGeneres commends Obama on maneuvering fear throughout her stint as First Lady.

They took the image of a smart, articulate, outspoken black woman and they turned it into a threat. So yes, it definitely hurt, said Obama. It was stunning at first, because when you see yourself in a way thats not you, you wonder how easily your whole persona can be manipulated when youre in the public eye.

Obama added that the medias focus on spewing negative has become the easy go-to.

What prevents you from seeing my humanity? Something is broken, she said.

The Light We Carry is produced by Audible and the Obamas production company, Higher Ground. The podcast examines how people can overcome obstacles in their lives as long as they remember their personal power.

Per the logline:

Listen as Mrs. Obama and her friends explore themes like building meaningful relationships; issues connected to race, gender, and visibility; the habits and principles they have used to successfully adapt to change and overcome obstacles; and the importance of lighting up for others to reveal the richness and potential around us. As ever, Michelle Obama brings her trademark humor, candor, and compassion while she discusses her tools for living in todays world.

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Linda Furuto

Changemakers around the world are selected annually by Obama Foundation Leaders to inspire and accelerate positive change in their communities. For 2023, University of Hawaii at Mnoa College of Education (COE) Professor of Mathematics Education, Linda Furuto, has been chosen to be one of 105 global leaders.

Furuto will be among just 34 leaders participating in the Asia-Pacific program, representing a cohort of 22 countries/territories across the region. The 2023 cohort of Asia-Pacific Leaders are focusing on a broad range of issues, including the climate crisis, Indigenous rights, education and more.

I cant think of anyone more qualified than Linda to represent the COE as an Obama Leader, said Department of Curriculum Studies Chair Patricia Espiritu Halagao. Her cutting-edge work with ethnomathematics and involvement as the UH ambassador to the Pacific Voyaging Society (PVS) Moananuikea Voyage will greatly contribute to better understanding how education can serve our global communities. And, above all, she exudes the values of a humble, caring and committed servant leader.

During the six-month, non-residential Obama Leaders program, Furuto will participate in weekly virtual skill-building workshops, network building opportunities and a variety of moderated conversations with members of the Obama Foundation global network. Upon completion of the program, leaders join the Obama Foundations alumni community as the next generation of civically active, positive role models who are prepared to create tangible solutions to the challenges of our time.

Furuto is the director of the Ethnomathematics Graduate Certificate and Master of Education in Curriculum Studies Mathematics Education programs at COE. She led the highly acclaimed Ethnomathematics and STEM Institute for 10 years, garnering a 2019 UH Presidents Green Initiative Award and 2022 PBS Hawaii Home is Here feature for exploring sustainability, stewardship and ancestral knowledge through mathematical sciences. This institute would become the first ethnomathematics academic program in the world.

Prior to joining the COE in 2013, Furuto was an associate professor of mathematics and head of mathematics and science at UH West Oahu. A UH Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching recipient, she is also an apprentice navigator and education specialist with PVS, and is part of the 20232026 Moananuikea Voyage of the Pacific.

I am truly grateful to be part of the UH Mnoa College of Education surrounded by inspiring students, staff, faculty and communities grounded in a sense of purpose and a sense of place, said Furuto. By collectively expanding our perspectives on how we intentionally wayfind 360 , I believe we can create a world where every child knows know who they are, where they come from, and where they are going through values-based STEM education. I look forward to continuing to work together to strengthen the P-20 pipeline by creating alternative STEM pathways to traditional learning goals in ethnomathematics and STEM.

Read the full story at the COE website.

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March 27, 2023

Washington, D.C. U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and 17 of their Senate colleagues in a letter to President Biden raising concerns over reports the Administration is considering a return to the ineffective and inhumane Trump-era practice of detaining migrant families, after previously putting an end to family detention in December 2021.

Under both the Obama and Trump Administrations, family detention had disastrous effects on migrant families and children, without any corresponding improvement in border security or deterrence.We urge you to learn from the mistakes of your predecessors and abandon any plans to implement this failed policy, the Senators wrote.

In the letter, the Senators cite that family detention does not appear to have deterred border crossings. Instead, it has corresponded with an increase in unique encounters of children and individuals in families by an average of 57 percent per year between 2015 and 2019.U.S. Border Patrol agents have also reportedly cautioned the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and White House officials that reinstating the Trump-era policy wont deter border crossings. Additionally, two of DHSs own medical consultants concludedafter a series of ten investigations during both the Obama and Trump Administrationsthat family detention centers posed a high risk of harm to children and their families.

The recent past has taught us that family detention is both morally reprehensible and ineffective as an immigration management tool. We look forward to working closely with your Administration on more thoughtful and humane responses to such challenges, the Senators concluded.

The Senators also offered alternatives such as case management programs, which have proven far more humane and cost-effective.Congress recently appropriated $20 million dollars to DHS to implement alternatives to detention to ensure that families, children, and other individuals seeking asylum comply with the law, without harming children and families.

In addition to Cortez Masto and Durbin, U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) signed the letter.

The first and only Latina Senator and Nevadas former top law enforcement official, Senator Cortez Masto has consistently worked to pass meaningful immigration reform that balancescritical border security measureswith a path to citizenship for Dreamers, TPS holders, and essential workers. She recently reintroduced legislation to make commonsense fixes to our broken immigration system and crack down on notario fraud. She has also led legislation to require alternatives to detention (ATD) programs, including community-based supervision and community support, as immigrants await the outcome of their immigration cases.

Full text of the letter is available HERE and below:

Dear Mr. President:

We are concerned by reports that your Administration is considering a return to the ineffective and inhumane practice of detaining migrant families. Your Administration was right to put an end to family detention in December 2021. Under both the Obama and Trump Administrations, family detention had disastrous effects on migrant families and children, without any corresponding improvement in border security or deterrence. We urge you to learn from the mistakes of your predecessors and abandon any plans to implement this failed policy.

The Obama Administration restarted the practice of detaining families in 2014, and the Trump Administration continued this policy. We have therefore had ample opportunity to observe the devastating impacts of family detention on the well-being of children. The American Academy of Pediatrics found that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facilities for detaining families did not meet the basic standards for the care of children in residential settings. The American Medical Association has long opposed family immigration detention, separation of children from their parents in detention, and any plans to expand these detention centers because of the negative health consequences that detention has on both children and their parents. Additionally, two of DHSs own medical consultants concludedafter a series of ten investigations during both the Obama and Trump Administrationsthat DHS family detention centers posed a high risk of harm to children and their families.

We have also learned that detaining families is ineffective and impractical as an immigration management tool. Family detention does not appear to have deterred desperate families from attempting to come to the United Statesinstead, the implementation of this policy corresponded with an increase in unique encounters of children and individuals in families by an average of 57 percent per year between 2015 and 2019. DHS spent more than $866 million over a three-year period to maintain space to detain just over 3,000 family units per year.

For those who do not pose a threat to our communities or flight risk, alternatives to detention have proven far more humane and cost-effective than detention. For example, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) Family Case Management Program had 100 percent attendance at court proceedings for enrollees, and an estimated cost of approximately $36 per person per day, versus approximately $319 per day for an ICE family detention bed. Congress recently appropriated $20 million dollars to DHS to implement such case management programs. These programs ensure that families, children, and other individuals seeking asylum comply with the law, without harming children and families.

We understand that your Administration faces significant challengesparticularly in light of Congressional failure to pass immigration reformto manage an influx of asylum seekers arriving at our southern border. However, the recent past has taught us that family detention is both morally reprehensible and ineffective as an immigration management tool. We look forward to working closely with your Administration on more thoughtful and humane responses to such challenges.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Archewell Foundation has made quite an impact in their first year, outdoing both the Obama and Clinton foundations. According to data released on the foundation's website, the organization generated $13,005,600 in revenue while spending $3,987,070.

This is a huge achievement, considering that the Obama Foundation raised $5.5 million and spent $1.9 million in their first year, while the Clinton Foundation raised $10 million and spent $2.9 million.

Meghan and Prince Harry's incredible welcome at One Young World, Manchester

The Archewell Foundation has already awarded $3,096,319 in grants to over 40 organizations, focusing on key areas such as vaccine equity, relief centers, refugee resettlement, and building a better online world.

Additionally, they've spent $520,826 to deliver programs and campaigns that align with their priorities, including vaccine equity and conservation.

The foundation follows the standard practice for organizations of its size, with a 90/10 ratio of program services to administrative expenses. This ensures that 80 percent of total expenses go towards their programs, while 20 percent or less is spent on administrative costs.

Through their foundation, they have provided 12.66 million COVID-19 vaccines, helped resettle 174,497 refugees, served 50,000 meals to the hungry, and rescued 7,468 individuals from Afghanistan.

They have also supported academic fellows, created a guide on positive masculinity, and built a play space in Texas after a tragic school shooting.

Co-Executive Directors of The Archewell Foundation, James Holt, and Shauna Nep expressed their gratitude for the experience they've had over the past two years. "It has been rich with learning, growth, inspiration, and action. We've made new partnerships and strengthened existing ones," they said.

The Archewell Foundation's commitment to building a better world online is particularly noteworthy. The organization aims to work to restore trust in information and uplift communities both online and offline, locally and globally.

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A complaint about boats called Himalayan Women geddit? and Screaming Seamen has prompted the club to have a quiet word with some of its younger members, and CBD understands that the lad who thought it was funny to call his boat Big Black Tiller agreed to call it something else instead.

Paul Dynes (inset) and the yacht Himalayan Women. Supplied

Yacht club spokesman Peter Davey told us that the club issued a polite warning to its yachties, asking that boat names, which have a strong tradition of double entendres, be considered carefully and that they do not denigrate anyone on the basis of gender or ethnicity.

Were looking at developing a code of conduct when it comes to boat names, so if theres any kind of obvious double meaning ... we can point to the rules and say no, we cant accept that name, Davey said.

We just have to; its just the way things are today.

But as for Himalayan Women, the committee conducted a snap survey of members and decided it was not unduly offensive.

The vessels owner, Paul Dynes, who described the saga as absurd and nonsense, told CBD he had no intention of taking the traditionally unlucky step of renaming his 26-footer.

Its been raced extensively throughout the state for the last 10 years, raced against thousands and thousands of people and one person found it offensive, Dynes said.

People have got the right to be offended, but sometimes the rest of us have a duty to ignore them.

When we brought word in November that former US president Barack Obama was coming to town for a couple of speaking engagements, we thought the events would be sellouts, not least because former prime minister Julia Gillards show at Hamer Hall the previous month sold out within minutes.

We want you: Tickets are still selling for Barack Obamas appearance with Julie Bishop. John Shakespeare

Back then, it looked like progressive former national leaders were a sure-fire hit for event promoters. Now, were not so sure.

For Obama, it looks like a tale of two cities, with plenty of tickets left for Wednesday nights show MCd by former foreign minister Julie Bishop at John Cain Arena, and you can still get in for $195. Things are a little tighter for Tuesday nights show in Sydney, where there were still plenty of spots available when we looked on Monday but mostly at the pricier end of the room, costing upwards of $345.

We asked the shows publicists how they thought things were going. We havent heard back.

Womens media entrepreneur Mia Freedman is to get the small-screen treatment, with Foxtel-owned streaming service Binge turning her 2017 memoir into an Asher Keddie-led show called Strife.

This is your life: Mia Freedman and Steve Hutensky. Supplied

Freedman is a co-executive producer on the project, which started filming this week, along with Keddie, and Steve Hutensky, a former entertainment lawyer who helped Harvey Weinstein with women Weinstein had allegedly sexually harassed.

Hutensky is co-founder and chief operating officer of production company Made Up Stories, along with his wife, Bruna Papandrea, (also producing Strife). The company prides itself on producing stories with intelligent, multifaceted female characters, and is the recipient of millions in Screen Australia grants.

But in a past life, Hutensky spent decades as a lawyer for Weinsteins production house, Miramax, with his work for the disgraced producer earning him the the cleaner-upper. While Hutenskys work with Weinstein was well-documented in American reporting, its rarely discussed in a domestic film industry where Made Up Stories is a big player.

While were not suggesting he was involved in any illegal acts, or knew the extent of the allegations against Weinstein (who is now sentenced to 39 years in prison for sexual assault), the whole connection just doesnt sit well with Freedmans pop feminist brand.

Neither Hutensky nor Freedman responded to CBDs comment requests.

The non-expulsion of hardline conservative state Liberal MP Moira Deeming was pretty much the only thing anyone wanted to talk about in state politics this past week, but free speech, loose lips and related matters are always difficult subjects in party circles.

Victorian MP Moira Deeming leaves the Liberal party room after avoiding being expelled on Monday. Darrian Traynor

Some attendees at Friday nights Liberal state assembly, a regular meeting of delegates to discuss party matters, were left griping that the party of free speech had strayed a little far from its principles when state branch president Greg Mirabella allegedly gagged discussion of the Deeming brouhaha, using official disallowance powers.

But that wasnt the recollection of everyone in the room. CBD has been told, by someone who ought to know, that Mirabella simply addressed the the elephant in the room before the meeting got under way and suggested, to general agreement, that with a byelection to win this Saturday in Alan Tudges vacated seat of Aston, the assembly might be smart to kick the Deeming issue down the road for a couple of weeks.

Turned out the Liberals parliamentary team was thinking along the same lines with its decision to suspend the Western Metro MLA rather than agree to leader John Pesuttos wish of turfing her from the party room altogether.

Great minds and all that.

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