How to Start Something: Looking for Buy-In on Criminal Justice Reform by Shellee O’Brien Five challenges a Texas activist encountered once a wrongful conviction happened in her own family. The State of Texas convicted Lucy’s niece and sentenced her to life in prison. Lucy had watched Hannah endure
CC BY-NC 2.0 Mr. Nixter, Flickr As part of the much discussed, often maligned, and sometimes glorified millennial generation, I often think about what differentiates my generation from those who’ve come before, and when it comes to participation in our communities, we definitely have our own approach. While
If you can’t find a job you love, make one up—-Mo Rocca LIVE [https://www.facebook.com/BCSpeakerSeries/] “As you get older, you care less what people think of you.” Some people break the mold and leave their mark on the world because it simply never occurred to
Once upon a time, a militia saved our young nation from domestic insurrection, ages before the “Y’All Queda” interest groups cast themselves in false-flags: Saviors of the Constitution. Now: If you’ve been following the episode in Oregon, you know that the Hammonds were sent to jail by a
There’s a chorus asking us to think about our civic health. A relatively quiet (i.e., hardly noticeable) effort in Arizona added the citizenship test to graduation requirements. Then there was San Bernardino. And, in President Obama’s State of the Union speech, he asked American citizens to join