So, This is What Democracy Looks Like”
byIn a sea of many, one man of faith emerges from a circle of comfort to fight alongside the hurting. The “Justice for All” march,…
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Can One-sided Injustice Produce Peace in America?
byNo more studies needed. We all know the system is broken. Now what? One of America’s respected news journals recently published a serious challenge…
Other Ways to Leave a Mark
byAsk many adults about the way they were disciplined as children and they will say, “A good old-fashioned spanking.” They will tell you they…
Joy
byShoulders bent, she sat slumped on the couch, drowning in her tears and the turbulent tide of meeting the needs of family, the demands…
Protecting Fragile Life in Ferguson
byGoogle maps shows that Mike Brown was killed 1.5 miles from my church. After he was shot, I spent a week away from my…
Former U.S. Surgeon General Satcher Answers Health Questions
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Dr. David Satcher knows a thing or two about Black health. He was president of historically Black, Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, before President Bill Clinton appointed him U.S. surgeon general, a job that Satcher held from 1998 to 2002. Satcher now directs the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine. Some of Satcher’s missions there are to develop a more diverse generation of public health leaders and to eliminate health-care disparities in the population.
The Record Keeper
byThe television crime drama makes escaping justice seems so simple—at first. The perpetrator concludes his incriminating call and snaps the cell phone in half….
Go Ahead, Push the Button
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I remember a towering, kind, and genteel law professor who taught us how to craft our arguments to the jury in order to collect monetary damages on behalf of injured clients. Before many states instituted the current monetary limits on what an injured person could recover in court, lawyers like him appealed to personal outrage and the great sympathy of the jury. Juries, moved by these arguments, would often award huge sums to the victims or families of the victims to “make them whole again.”