Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) offers courses for older adults at many college and universities around the country.
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Many of our best universities offer online courses to people of all ages – some of them free
https://www.edx.org/learn/justice/harvard-university-justice
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@ https://online.stanford.edu/free-courses
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And Coursera is a good resource too.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/beethoven-piano-sonatas
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Context Learning is a commercial site offering single online lectures at nominal cost. They focus on art, history and culture and are typically related to travel.
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Learn more about Climate Change, African History and American Poverty from these recommended BOOKS
“Riveting . . . Under a White Sky expertly mixes travelogue, science reporting and explanatory journalism.”—The Washington Post
“To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert. . . . It’s a tribute to Kolbert’s skills as a storyteller that she transforms the quest to deal with the climate crisis into a darkly comic tale of human hubris and imagination that could either end in flames or in a new vision of Paradise.”—Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone
“A superb and honest reflection of our extraordinary time.”—Nature
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What happens when you consider the origins of modernity and center Africa rather than Europe? Howard W. French’s book, “Born in Blackness,” explores that very question
The way we think about history is entirely wrong, says Howard W French at the start of this magnificent, powerful and absorbing book. The problem is not just that the people and cultures of Africa have been ignored and left to one side; rather, that they have been so miscast that the story of the global past has become part of a profound “mistelling”… French writes with the elegance you would expect from a distinguished foreign correspondent, and with the passion of someone deeply committed to providing a corrective… This is not a comfortable or comforting read, but it is beautifully done; a masterpiece even. ~ The Guardian
The evidence that Africans made the New World economically viable is overwhelming… French repeatedly circles back over his material like a picture restorer revealing a lost world as he calmly insists that we rewrite history. I found the book to be searing, humbling and essential reading. ~ NYT Book Review
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In Matthew Desmond’s ‘Poverty by America,’ the Culprit Is Us
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
… And the central claim of that argument is that the endurance of poverty in the United States is the product not only of larger shifts such as deindustrialization and family dissolution, but of choices and actions by more fortunate Americans. Poverty persists partly because many of us have, with varying degrees of self-awareness, decided that we benefit from its perpetuation. NEW YORK TIMES
“Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral force is a gut punch.”—The New Yorker
If you would like to read an article instead of the whole book, here is a link to a piece in the NewYorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/matthew-desmond-poverty-by-america-book-review