By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
On a cold day in 2006, the Reverend Violet Little walked into a public transit restroom in Philadelphia. She was exhausted. She’d been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease that causes weakness, vision problems and breathing difficulties. Unable to...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Over the two decades that June Simmons worked as a social worker and administrator at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California, she saw a lot that’s right about health care — and a lot that isn’t. Frustrated by the immorality and inefficiency of...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Eight out of 10 people in Afghanistan today are illiterate, with women having virtually no access to education. This was not the case when Nasrine Gross grew up in Kabul. She had books, attended school and her mother was a member of Parliament. To be a voice for the...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Green-collar jobs are on everyone’s lips – politicians, economists and those fighting for social justice. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who recognized that freedom has little meaning, without the economic wherewithal to enjoy it, James abandoned...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Five years ago, Marian Kramer – a long-time advocate for social justice and co-chair of the National Welfare Rights Union – discovered that the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department had shut off running water to more than 40,000 Detroit-area residents who...
