By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As he was moving his daughter into her college dormitory, John Barczyk realized it was the place he read about in the newspaper where a student had fallen to her death after a party. At 53, he decided to use his lifelong expertise in advertising to engage young people...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Eddie Kamae, now 79, was in his sixties when he began to make documentaries. A professional musician, he dove into filmmaking after being inspired by a 90-year-old traditional Hawaiian songwriter. In his film work, Kamae tells the stories of Hawaii and its people...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Bill Raspberry climbed far from his roots in the small town of Okolona, Mississippi to become a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Washington Post. He is also a professor at Duke University. Critical to his success, he says, were his parents, who emphasized the...
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
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...
