In 2017 Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused widespread devastation across Puerto Rico, leaving children especially vulnerable—but the sad reality is Puerto Rican children were [...]
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As we begin the New Year, every new headline reminds us that these are very tumultuous times. I start this season redoubling my determination to focus all [...]
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All during the Christmas season, as millions celebrate a poor, homeless child Christians call Savior, I think about the irony of some political leaders proposing [...]
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When I was a child, my father kept an editorial cartoon pinned up in the vestibule of our church that made a deep impression on [...]
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After two years of divisive, hateful rhetoric from the highest levels of government, the profoundly inhumane treatment of immigrant families, and the placing of corporate [...]
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough [...]
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When I was a young civil rights lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Mississippi, I was called in 1967 to testify before Congress [...]
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In a few weeks . . . we are coming to Washington in a Poor People’s Campaign. Yes, we are going to bring the tired, [...]
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Fifty years ago this week the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, became law after passing Congress in the [...]
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I first heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in person on April 19, 1960 at Spelman College’s Sisters Chapel during my senior year in [...]
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