As a young college student, I traveled to Washington, D.C. with a friend and her family to attend the Million Moms March. It was my first experience with an event of that magnitude. Women, men and children walking together in

In the practice of issue advocacy, building new allies and engaging current ones to create a coalition can be a game-changer. You may have a terrific organization or company with a timely and important issue to advance, but assembling a

Credit to Cheyney University Cheyney University, the nation’s oldest institution of higher education for African Americans, has embarked on an outside-the-box course to not only survive but to again become a campus of high-achieving students.   This is a different

The first time I read one of my favorite quotes about life was on social media. Absent-mindedly, I scrolled through my phone and found inspiration in the words of a Greek philosopher who lived over 2,500 years ago. If only

Another day, yet another story about a female presidential candidate and her so-called shortcomings related to whether she is likeable enough. Or warm enough. Or maybe even once ate salad with a comb because she didn’t have a fork (gross,

Is there really ever too much of a good thing? Not when it’s good journalism, and especially not when that coverage is focused on the statehouse. A few years ago, news out of Harrisburg (and other state capitals, for that