Thank You Stacey Abrams!
“When I was 17, I set up my first voter registration table helping to sign up people to vote long before I was old enough [...]
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The Next Chapter
“This is a time of testing. We face an attack on democracy and on truth. A raging virus. Growing inequity. The sting of systemic racism. [...]
Read MoreIn This Defining Moment Truth Must Prevail
Two extraordinary voices, Sherrilyn Ifill, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), and Bryan Stevenson, head of the Equal Justice Initiative and [...]
Read MoreStay Awake!
As Americans everywhere remain on guard against continued chaos and violence leading up to Inauguration Day, it’s instructive to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s [...]
Read MoreA Reminder that All-Important Charity Is Not a Substitute for Justice
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for [...]
Read MoreHope for the New Year
We are beginning the New Year during very perilous times for children and for our nation and world, but in the face of overwhelming challenges [...]
Read MoreTwo Christmas Eve Lessons
At this time of year I often think of the powerful lessons in a pair of Christmas Eve sermons given by two of my mentors, [...]
Read MoreThe Concept of Enough
In Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote about Dr. Kirtley Mather’s 1944 book Enough and to [...]
Read MoreThe Housing Crisis Harming Our Children
Home for the holidays. The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted many Americans’ ability to travel home and visit families over the holidays in the usual ways, [...]
Read MoreIt’s Way Past Time to Lift Every Child in Our Wealthy Nation Above the Scratch Line
My dear and much beloved preacher teacher friend Dr. Samuel DeWitt Proctor was a great historically Black college president, Peace Corps leader in Africa, and [...]
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