Only the Truth Will Set Us Free
We want to tell the truth, because we believe in truth and reconciliation but we know that truth and reconciliation are sequential. We can’t get [...]
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No Turning Back
A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released last month, “K-12 Education: Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with Disabilities,” reminds us once [...]
Read MoreTheir Lives and Futures Remain on Hold
Daniela Gonzalez is a mother of two who lives in Jackson, Mississippi. She graduated from middle and high school in Jackson and is now enrolled [...]
Read MoreCharles Merrill: the Crucial Importance of Lanterns in Young Lives
I have been so blessed with an abundance of lanterns in my life who have been indispensable guides and supports over many decades. I shared [...]
Read MoreA Prayer to End Poverty in Our Time
In December 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached what would be his last Christmas sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. At the end [...]
Read MoreLove Trumps Hate
This is usually a season of familiar scenes in schools across the country, with holiday programs featuring messages of peace and goodwill to all. But [...]
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Pauli Murray’s Song of Hope
Hope is a song in a weary throat. Give me a song of hope And a world where I can sing it. Give me a [...]
Read MoreHealing the Gaping Open Wound: an Urgent Call for More Aid and Fair Treatment for Puerto Rico
A National Public Radio story this week described a visit to Escuela Gaspar Vila Mayans, a public elementary school in the Rio Piedras neighborhood of [...]
Read MorePraying and Standing for Children
As a new school year begins I want to share prayers for our children, all of them, and for caring adults to be God’s hands and feet [...]
Read MorePlease Take Sides: This Is No Time for Silence or Inaction!
“I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. [...]
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