“Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo”
“If the justice system does not change incarceration will continue to be as arbitrary as a game of eeny, meeny, miny, mo, with black [...]
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Dangerous Steps Backwards on Discriminatory School Discipline
In January 2014, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice jointly released a ‘guidance package’ on school discipline to help schools and districts meet [...]
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Moving Forward to Prevent Gun Violence
When 26-year-old Stockton, California councilmember Michael Tubbs was elected in 2016 as Stockton’s first Black mayor, its youngest mayor ever, and the youngest mayor in [...]
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A Call to Conscience
January 15th would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 90th birthday. How should we honor him today? Earlier this month Dr. King’s personal attorney and friend [...]
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Lucy Durr Hackney
When Lucy Durr married Sheldon Hackney in 1957, the custom alterations to her beautiful gown were done for her by a family friend--Mrs. Rosa Parks. [...]
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A New Year for Children
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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Prayers for the Holy Season
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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We Must Protect Our Children America!
Six years ago today, December 14 started off like an ordinary morning in classrooms across our country. Children rushed in to school bundled against the [...]
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Remembering My Dear Friend and Freedom Fighter Dr. John Maguire
“Up until I was 16 years old and a senior in high school, I did the same thing my friends did. We drove through the [...]
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A New Moral and Human Low
It has come to this: tear-gassing toddlers. Heartbreaking images of the American government’s attacks on asylum-seekers at the border have emerged over the past several [...]
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