| Jun 3, 2020 | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyI was naive until I wasn’t. At just 18, the day after I graduated from high school, I drove from Boston to Atlanta to work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Two weeks later, on June 21, 1964, we got word that three young civil rights...
| | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAs protests and riots spread like wildfire across the nation in response to the death of George Floyd and other black people at the hands of white police officers, I cannot help but recall an old African Proverb: “The child who is not embraced by the village will burn...
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| May 13, 2020 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA random pedestrian spit on a 26-year-old woman on her way to the gym in her San Francisco neighborhood. In New York, a stranger chased and struck down a woman who appeared to be of Asian descent. And in Texas, a man stabbed a family of three at a store because he...
| May 12, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyEvery morning for the last two months, I’ve checked the news in my home state of Florida with growing concern. First came the photos of unemployed people lining up to file for benefits in person, denied access to an overburdened system. Then came the news that only a...