Gus 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 More“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 More“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 MoreIn 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 MoreSixty 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 MoreOur 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 MoreThe day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who had announced his decision to run for President, gave a [...]
Read MoreMay 29 was Memorial Day in the United States, and the long weekend that is traditionally observed with shared American remembrance made headlines again for [...]
Read MoreAmanda Gorman, the eloquent 25-year-old Harvard graduate who was our nation’s first ever National Youth Poet Laureate, recently became one of the latest authors to [...]
Read MoreI recently attended a memorial service for my dear friend and former Children’s Defense Fund Board Chair Ambassador James Joseph. Ambassador Joseph was a civil [...]
Read MoreMothers. Grandmothers. Women. We have so much work to do. So many mothers and infant lives to save. So many child dreams to realize and [...]
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