Fifty years ago, when Martin Luther King, Jr. began to focus on the intersections between racism and poverty, he launched what he called a “Poor People’s Campaign.” Many of the marchers and protesters who had joined his work against racism...

When Hillary Clinton was interviewed for the Humans of New York project, she recalled taking the exam for law school when she was a Harvard student in the late 1960’s. She and a friend were the only females in a...

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. From Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, 1978...

People. Stay woke. We now have a large percentage of the population being fed propaganda through their nightly news. Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns 193 local television stations across the country, recently forced every news anchor at every Sinclair station to...

What would happen if a democratic nation elected a government whose policies made it impossible for many people to enjoy fundamental human rights? One answer is: you might get a visit from a United Nations Human Rights overseer. That is...

Every year, roughly 13,000 Americans are killed by guns. Let that sink in. More Americans have died from gunshot wounds in the last 50 years than in all the wars in American history. In addition, roughly 26,000 people are injured by...

In the late 1970’s, a religious sect settled into the tiny town of Island Pond, Vermont, located in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. The group called itself the Church of Island Pond. Children from these families were occasionally beaten with rods and...

I love to tell the story of my Scottish grandfather, Daniel. At the age of seven, Daniel became an indentured servant. It was a common arrangement in the 1800’s among European families like Daniel’s: dirt poor, unable to feed four...

It is exactly one year since the 45th presidential election; one year! In that year, this country has changed dramatically. I’m not talking about the retrograde policy changes or the trammeling of our political heritage and constitutional law. I am...

Is anything sadder than the long list of people in our country who have known hatred and exclusion imposed by this county’s dominant male, wealthy, white culture? Immigrants, people of color, queer folks, fat folks, those who wear a hijab,...