A Voting Rights Reflection for a Democracy That Must Be Practiced Excerpt: Rights do not survive on memory alone. From New York's early suffrage exclusions to Mississippi's machinery of disenfranchisement, from Selma to the Supreme Court's 2026 gutting of the Voting Rights Act, the history of the ballot shows that democracy requires constant public defense... Continue Reading →
A Cultural Tapestry: Honoring the People of Latin America (and Spain)
“Freedom is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.” - José Martí (Cuba) A Cultural Tapestry: Honoring the People of Latin America (and Spain) When I was in college, I took a cultural appreciation course that asked us to look beyond borders and headlines—to study people, their... Continue Reading →