Scholar, journalist Nathan Rutstein explores concept of humanity

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"Uniting Humanity in a Time of Crisis," a public talk exploring the reality underlying the oneness of humanity, will be held Tuesday, April 29, 7:30pm, in Weston Language Center, Room 10, at Williams College. The program is free and the public is welcome to attend. Guest speaker Nathan Rutstein, retired professor from UMass-Amherst, is a writer, television documentarian, former journalist and news director, and co-founder of the Institute for the Healing of Racism. His talk will explore the reality underlying the oneness of humanity, helping the audience to gain an understanding of what a human being really is. On the surface, this concept appears very simple, Rutstein states, but it is actually quite complex. Centuries of thoughts and ideas have had a cumulative effect in portraying a distorted view of the oneness of humanity and creating a fractured reality. Understanding that each of us, on this planet, is related to every other human being, helps us in recognizing our oneness. Rutstein has written nineteen books, including "Coming of Age at the Millennium: Embracing the Oneness of Humankind," released in 1999. He's authored several books on racism, including "The Racial Conditioning of Our Children: Ending Genocide in Our Schools," published in 2001. Two of his books, "Healing Racism in America: A Prescription for the Disease" and "Healing Racism: Education's Role" (as co-editor) were named by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights as outstanding books in the field of Human Rights. "Coming of Age at the Millenium" will be available for purchase after the program. He spent fifteen years as a journalist, most of that time serving as news editor at NBC News and ABC News. There were times when he acted as a reporter, including interviewing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., four times. Rutstein spent 22 years as a college professor, and chaired the Education Media department at the UMass School of Education. He later created a Communications Department at Springfield Technical Community College, where he devised unorthodox teaching methods and learning environments that students of color found attractive. Rutstein has served as a consultant to the White House Conference on Children, the Harlem preparatory school, and Brazil's Institute for Space Research's educational division, as well as being a Kellogg Foundation Lecturer in Residence on racism. He has produced and directed ten television documentaries, including "Finding a Solution" and "Black and White in Springfield." In 1987, Rutstein and other colleagues created the Institute for the Healing of Racism; there are now 200 Institutes in the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Canada. The program is sponsored by the Bahá'í Club of Williams College. For more information, call (413) 458-8092.
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