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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

On this Thanksgiving I share again as I have over the years this beautiful prayer of our great Black theologian Dr. Howard Thurman A Litany [...]

I recently received a note from my dear and evergreen friend Maria Nhambu with wise counsel that has circulated for many years under titles like [...]