| Jun 11, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyLast year, the Supreme Court decimated one of the civil rights movement’s crowning achievements. Now, it’s time for Congress to pick up the pieces, put it back together and make our laws strong enough to protect our most important right: our vote. Many...
| Jun 5, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyI was traveling when Dr. Maya Angelou died, away from my poetry community in Washington, D.C. But my Facebook feed was crowded with tributes and powerful remembrances, as writers, survivors, and truth tellers chronicled the impact of Dr. Angelou’s life and words...
| Jun 4, 2014 | Rights / Democracy“Gentlemen, start your engines.” That message, played repeatedly in a commercial beamed on the Jumbotron at this year’s Indianapolis 500, had nothing to do with racecars. A coalition of faith, business, and law enforcement leaders used the iconic...
| | Rights / DemocracyIn 2008, I went to therapy. By then, I’d needed it for a long time. I had a terribly difficult, incurable condition — one I’d had for 28 years without treatment. My condition? Being human. Like many “normal” people, I felt I didn’t need...
| May 28, 2014 | Rights / DemocracyProspective female students may have a new question for admissions counselors as part of the college decision-making process: How likely am I to be raped on your campus? This is no idle inquiry. According to new statistics, women have a 1-in-5 chance of being the...
