By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
From his work in an inner city school, Bob Moses recognized that mathematics literacy in today’s information age is as important to educational access and citizenship for inner city and rural poor middle and high school students as the right to vote was to...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Orlando Tobon immigrated from Colombia in 1968 and still works as an accountant and travel agent. Over the years, however, his tiny office in the “Little Colombia” section of Queens has become the place for newcomers to find advice, sanctuary and critical...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Thirty years into a career as a civil rights lawyer, Bergmark knew a lot about how to make the justice system work better for low-income people. In 2003, at the height of her career, she turned her energies toward filling a void in her home state of Mississippi....
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2000, while working for an interfaith peace-building organization, the Rev. William Rankin, then age 59, learned that a single $4 dose of an anti-retroviral drug (given to both mother and newborn) could halt HIV transmission from mothers to newborns. He formed the...
