Children Are Supposed to Enjoy Their Lives
What did you do over summer break? It’s a common question for students getting ready to head back to school, and thousands of young scholars [...]
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We Must Be the Examples
When our children see the news right now, what are they thinking? We are at a moment where adults everywhere are reminded once again that we must [...]
Read MoreBringing Truth to Light
On July 25, the day that would have been Emmett Till’s 82nd birthday, President Joe Biden hosted a White House signing ceremony for a proclamation establishing [...]
Read More“Youth Aren’t Bulletproof”
“Dear Lawmaker, My name is Ana Rodriguez. I lost my daughter, Maite Rodriguez on May 24, 2022 in a mass shooting at her school, Robb [...]
Read MoreGus Newport
“I’m lucky for what my grandmother instilled in me: Don’t think you know it all, learn something new every day. I learned it by engaging [...]
Read MoreChristine King Farris
“I am convinced that, to a certain extent, genealogy and DNA combined to set the arc of my life, and the lives of my two [...]
Read MoreOverturning Opportunity
In the spring of 1954, like so many Black families, mine waited anxiously for the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. My father and I [...]
Read MoreListening Again to Loving
Sixty years ago in June 1963, a young wife and mother drafted a neatly handwritten letter about a “problem” her family was facing: Dear Sir: [...]
Read MoreNobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free
Our nation is about to celebrate its third commemoration of Juneteenth as a federal holiday, marking the jubilant day in June 1865 when many enslaved [...]
Read More“The Mindless Menace of Violence”
The day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who had announced his decision to run for President, gave a [...]
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