By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Gary Grant works to address the many manifestations of racism and social/ economic/ environmental injustices found in the South, through advocacy, activism, education, capacity-building, leadership development, community organizing and action. In 1984 he established...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Before retiring from his post as field director at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s Copán Project, archaeologist David Sedat led the team that discovered the royal tomb of the founder of the ancient Maya city of Copán,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Im Ja P. Choi at times felt helpless as her 85-year-old mother lay in a Philadelphia hospital bed recovering from three surgeries for stomach cancer. She watched in frustration as the nurses tried to communicate with her Korean mother in English. “They said, ‘roll...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Before 2004, recidivism for inmates at Dixon Correctional Institute in Jackson, La., hovered at around 50 percent. So half of the prisoners who were released routinely landed back in prison. Then Michael Ellerbe showed up. A Southern Baptist pastor, Ellerbe stepped...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Nola Theiss spent several years as council member and Mayor of Sanibel, FL. Volunteering later with an international women’s organization (Zonta International) to combat human trafficking, she was shocked to learn such trafficking had occurred right in her own...
