To My Son
To my Dearest Donovan, I watch you fall asleep every night. Our fingers intertwined, your eyes meet mine, and you battle your exhaustion. Oh how you love life! You fight the night like the vermillion...
View ArticleCongress Must Step Up for Veterans
Watch TV these days, look around online, or go to a live sporting event, and it's nearly impossible to miss the growing appreciation of the sacrifices made by America's veterans. Ads routinely depict...
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Family That Chose To Live In Their Car Rather Than Give Up Their Pit Bull...
Last month, news surfaced that the Devia family of Walnut Creek, Calif., were in a bind. After Carol and Peter Devia lost their apartment after both being laid off, they struggled to find another home...
View ArticleBystanders No More
By Hon. Judy Harris Kluger and Ted Bunch, Co-Founder of A Call to Men. "When did you first realize that violence against women, and gender violence, is a man's problem?" That's the opening question...
View Article'How To Not Get Raped' Video Makes So Much Sense. Oh Wait, No It Doesn't
Cat Del Buono's satirical comprehensive guide on "how to not get raped" is inspired by WikiHow, Cosmopolitan Magazine, the University of Colorado and other colleges' advice to women. "It speaks to the...
View ArticleThe International Criminal Court at RightsCon: Upping its Cyber Game
When tech innovators and human rights activists mobilized in San Francisco last week to discuss how modern tools can be better used to respond to global human rights violations, a critical partner came...
View ArticleWomen Changing the Way We Think About Our Boobs: Angelique Pitney
One night a couple years ago Angelique Pitney -- actor, mother, charitable force -- sat at her computer. It was late, very late. She was up doing a lot of thinking, as she had been frequently since she...
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A Teen Wrestler's Act Of Kindness Brought A Crowd To Tears
It's not often that a wrestling match ends in tears. But last week, at the Class 3A state high school wrestling championship in St. Paul, Minn., that's exactly what happened. In his weight class' final...
View ArticleWar on Poverty Book Misses the Program's Overall Successes
Just one serious academic book has been published this year to mark the 50th anniversary of one of America's most innovative and productive efforts: Lyndon Johnson's work to eradicate poverty. Legacies...
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Using Cultural Guides to Bridge the Veterans' Employment Gap
Veterans' employment is a national topic; look no further than the constant media and White House attention it receives. Yet, current efforts are failing; post 9/11 veterans have a 10.1 percent...
View ArticleRosie Perez Opens Up About Traumatic Childhood In Memoir
Rosie Perez has never been known to keep quiet, but the Puerto Rican actress was never truly outspoken about her traumatic past -- until now. Known for her spitfire personality and for breaking...
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'Witness Uganda' Is Destined To Be A Broadway Hit (And It's Also Making The...
When Griffin Matthews was 23 years old, the director of his church choir found out he was gay and asked him to leave the congregation. A broke, struggling actor living in New York City, Matthews...
View ArticleParents Without Borders: Why a Hong Kong Social Enterprise Funds Neonatal...
September 18, 2011, 7:30 in the morning -- a humid, overcast Sunday in Hong Kong: I am 36 hours into my labor with my first child when the doctor arrives to tell me they are going to perform an...
View Article7-Year-Old Boy Raises More Than $750,000 To Fight His Best Friend's Disease
Dylan Siegel, 7, would do anything for a friend --Â especially if that friend is his best one, 8-year-old Jonah Pournazarian. The pair has been inseparable ever since they met in preschool, when Dylan...
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Why Protecting the Environment 'For Future Generations' Is a Bad Idea
I recently took my son to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Center in Nairobi, Kenya. Suffice to say, they do amazing work rescuing and rereleasing baby elephants and rhinos back into the wild. They...
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Close the Torture Houses in North Sinai and Egypt
Every day Meron Estafamos answers her phone with an aching heart. From torture houses in Egypt, Eritrean hostages plead for ransom on a captor's cell phone. Help me. They are torturing us. Please,...
View ArticleUniversity Of Iowa Campus Protest Shows Pressure For Action On College Rape
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — As much as any college administrator could be, University of Iowa President Sally Mason was prepared for the growing nationwide pressure to curb campus sexual assaults. An...
View ArticleYou Might Have a Dysfunctional Board If...
Note: Every single item below comes from a true story shared with me since I wrote about Post Traumatic Board Member Disorder, or PTBMD for short. Sadly, dysfunctional boards are an epidemic. I'm on a...
View ArticleBetween Las Vegas and Renunciation
It was the year of 1994. I was in the 6th standard and my class was being conducted under a tree by my class teacher. 'Some time ago', it seemed that sir was narrating an incident, I was going back...
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The Adventures of Dab the AIDS Bear
I hopped a plane from Topeka, Kansas to Pensacola, Florida in February 2013 to visit with my amazing friend Patrick Rogers, Pastor of the United Church of Christ of Pensacola. Patrick also serves as...
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