By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2011, Claire Bloom learned from a school teacher in her Dover, NH, community that many local children enrolled in the free school lunch program endure 68 hours of hunger every weekend between Friday lunch and Monday breakfast. “From the instant I heard her say...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Dolphus Weary grew up in rural Simpson County, Mississippi. When he won an out-of- state basketball scholarship to college, he swore he’d never come back. But a strong sense of calling prompted him to return to Mendenhall, Mississippi, Simpson’s county seat. It became...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Twenty-one years ago, Eva Leivas-Andino, a political refugee from Cuba, was devastated when her son Paolo came out as gay. Terrified of what her family and friends would say she kept her son’s sexual orientation secret. On a visit to New York eight years later, Paolo...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1999, Terrie Cross had just sold her medical equipment business and was asked to help with a problem: 4,000 Medicaid children in Scott County, a government empowerment zone in the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee, needed local access to dental care. A new...
