“I tell people I’m in charge of children, children I haven’t even met yet.” --Mayor David Dinkins My wonderful friend, devoted child advocate and groundbreaking [...]

Edmond McDonald wrote: “When God wants an important thing done in this world or a wrong righted, He goes about it in a very singular [...]

“Another life taken. Another public lynching. Another news story. Another act of recorded Black death . . . [This death] is not an anomaly, but [...]

In March Sister Simone Campbell stepped down as Executive Director of NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, the organization she led for 16 years that [...]

Passover and Easter celebrations are times of joyous sacredness with family and community rituals centered on the promises of deliverance, new hope, and rebirth—promises we [...]

The Herald-Advocate in Bennettsville, S.C., recently published this wonderful tribute to my brother on his birthday, and I wanted to share it with you: The [...]

I learned my first lessons about injustice and health growing up in segregated Bennettsville, South Carolina. I remember being awakened in the middle of the [...]

The “seed experiment” is a favorite science project from preschool on up: A child plants identical seeds in two pots. She places the first pot [...]