Newsroom and Stories
Goose Rocks Beach at First Light on New Year’s Day
There’s nothing like watching dawn break over Goose Rocks Beach in Maine. The first sign of light on the horizo...
A New Year ritual of renewal
It is the season of both ritual and renewal. While our family is not especially observant when it comes to...
Letter From Zavala County
Greetings from Zavala County in southwest Texas, “the spinach capital of the world”, replete with an annual spinach festival...
A 50th Anniversary, Both Public and Private, of MLK I Have A Dream Speech
Wednesday is the much anticipated 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, and for me...
An Unreasonable Man’s Triumph of Imagination
UPDATE: “Once you have proven the concept, everything else is engineering. The stakes are so high. A baby dies every...
The lasting power of bearing witness
I’m just back from Seattle where I gave the keynote at a Gates Foundation conference cross sector collaboration in education. ...
Increasing Child Poverty and the Political Culture in America Today
For the past ten years I’ve spent July 4that Goose Rocks Beach in Maine whose population of a few...
Leading health care CEO speaks out on link between hunger and health care
Several months ago Share Our Strength and Deloitte released a report about Deloitte’s extensive research on the connections between hunger...
Marian Wright Edelman’s Commencement Speech at Colorado College
“I love my role model, Sojourner Truth, who was an illiterate but brilliant slave women who could not stand slavery...