My journey began in tragedy. My husband died suddenly when I was 50 years old. I went to India on pilgrimage, visiting the town where we went to college. I saw many children in the slums, working for menial wages. Like many neglected children in India – child...
In May 2013, after 32 years in journalism, I helped start Try This West Virginia, a coalition aimed at helping knock our beloved state off the top of the national worst-health lists. The year before, I wrote a yearlong series for the Charleston Gazette on our...
I was reared on a farm in a poor, rural area, but my parents taught me and my seven siblings that family, hard work, education and belief in God were the stepping stones out of poverty. It worked for us, and I believe it will work in Gardere. The Gardere Initiative...
Hurricane Katrina washed away my East Biloxi, Mississippi, neighborhood – a mixed-race, low- to middle-income community of small businesses. And almost immediately, the state moved casinos from off-shore barges onto our land. In the fall of 2005, I attended an...
I was born in South Africa under apartheid. As a person of mixed race, my skin color led to discrimination, in society and within my family. As the oldest girl, I looked after my siblings, cleaned house, prepared meals, cared for farm animals and walked miles to...
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