Business is Essential to Advancing Racial Equity If you’ve been following BE MORE with Anu for a while, you know that I’m passionate about a lot of things. I’m a scientist who loves learning; an...
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Magogodi oaMphela Makhene, founder of Love As A Kind of Cure. Love As A Kind of Cure envisions a world where centuries-old inequalities are eliminated...
In the coming days, many Americans will celebrate the 4th of July, our nation’s Independence Day. This is one of the best-known holidays our country has to offer, with kids learning about its meaning...
With Yogis Vivekananda and Baldwin June 21 is International Day of Yoga. This day was first recognized by the United Nations in 2014 in order to raise global awareness of the physical and mental...
Celebrating human resilience There’s an important holiday coming up, and I’m not talking about the start of summer. Each June 19, we celebrate and honor Juneteenth, a commemoration of the...
What Pride Means to Me Happy Pride Month from my heart to yours! I hope you’re spending some time this month honoring yourself and/or your LGBTQ+ loved ones, as well as practicing gratitude for the...
What You Can Do to Protect the Right to Vote In my current hometown of New York City, we’re gearing up for local elections, and the city is buzzing with energy. Everywhere you turn, you can find...
Like you, I’ve been immobilized with grief and shock at the violence taking place across the Holy Land, also known as Israel and Palestine. The details of the horrors taking place are already sealed...
Let’s Heal Our Racial Traumas May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to recognize the importance of caring for our mental health and dismantle the shame and stigma that too often comes with...
How Perspective-Taking Could Have Averted the COVID-19 Crisis in India
A Solution to reform the American Criminal Justice System
An opportunity to undo racial injustice in America America once again is gripped under the spell of a racially charged criminal trial: the trial of Derek Chauvin, who murdered George Floyd in broad...
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Shalini Kantayya, filmmaker and director of Coded Bias. Coded Bias premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. It was broadcast...
On April 15th, I will be in conversation with Dr. Larry Ward at REVLOVE 2021, a conference dedicated to exploring how society can imagine a loving future and thereby create a healthy and just world.
Imagine a world free of racism with me
In 2020, you did what you could to understand why racism still persists in our society. You read books like How to be an Anti-Racist, Caste, and White Fragility. You attended webinars by leading...
Take a deep breath. Joe Biden has been named the president-elect and Kamala Harris the vice president-elect of the United States of America. This is truly a historic moment, one worth pausing and...
I was hanging out with a dear friend recently just to catch up and I was shocked by the level of anxiety, uncertainty, and fear that she was carrying because of the elections.
Originally published in June 2020.
The global anti-racism protests have ignited a much-needed reckoning among many mindfulness practitioners about systemic racism. For 15 years, I have studied the nature of bias academically,...