I spend a lot of time talking about invisibility on this blog, as it is a subject near and dear to me: I did my PhD work, completed in 2001, on early historical forms of invisibility.  I like to tell people that I’m an invisibility hipster, and that I worked on invisibility “before it was cool.”

The field has progressed dramatically since I first did my work, and in recent years I’ve been playing a bit of “catch up” with my own invisibility...

Rosey E. Pool during a Black Nativity tour in England (ca. 1965), with (a.o.) Marion Williams, Alex Bradford, Vinette Carrol and Madeleine Bell.

Black History Month — February is Black History Month. One aspect of this history is the longstanding and mutually supportive relationship between African Americans and Jews. Jeffrey Leak’s most recent research project deals specifically with this relationship. Jeffrey began this project by studying the life and...

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.  — Theodore Roosevelt

A quick read around in contemporary business writing might show that we are on the verge of elevating innovation and innovators to some kind of mythical status.  It is becoming commonplace to equate those who consciously seek the new, the different, and the disruptive with an exceptional class of leadership and extraordinary business value.   This may very well...