Nearly seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the court’s declared goal of integrated education is still not yet achieved. American society continues to grow more racially and ethnically diverse. But many of the nation’s public K-12 schools are not well integrated and are instead […]

Loss of Roe v Wade dark harbinger for women’s reproductive health About 1 million pregnancies a year in the U.S. will end in miscarriage or stillbirth, often referred to as spontaneous abortion. (Google it). When this happens the mother should be seen by a doctor to make sure there is no internal bleeding nor infection. […]

Energy prices are up 32 percent in the past year, causing pain at the pump, paying monthly utility bills, and buying everything that’s grown, shipped, or manufactured. And yet, staring at this painful reality, many of America’s largest corporations are elevating green wokeness over economic and business logic by calling – in the midst of […]

Even if you’ve only been casually following the fiery debate over abortion rights in the days since a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion eviscerating Roe v. Wade became public, you are likely well aware that there are deeply entrenched opinions among those who support and oppose abortion rights. You also are probably aware that […]

For all my life, I’ve had two big brothers. I’m the youngest of four children and my older brothers Don and Gary Simpson were 15 and 12 years older than me. Mine is a bit of a tragic family story, yet I will share that my mother found herself in the “family way” in the […]