Warren, a longtime volunteer with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, was charged with three felony counts for his alleged crime of providing food, water and shelter to migrants in Ajo, Arizona.
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Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney are literally the couple that met at the copy machine ... He was an illustrator, she was a writer, and "We thought, wow, we could really do some amazing things together." The Pinkneys have now been together for 30 years, and in that time, they've collaborated on nearly 20 children books.
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Carl Allamby was a successful car mechanic and small business owner when he decided at the age of 40 to go to medical school. Now a doctor, he talks with host Scott Simon about his experience.
Abigail Disney, the activist and filmmaker, has been speaking out on the issue of income inequality, and specifically at Disney. She was one of 18 people in the top one-tenth of the wealthiest 1% who first signed a recent letter to the 2020 presidential candidates supporting a tax for households with $50 million or more in assets.
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Tina Dietz grew up in North Dakota, in the sleepy, rural town of Mandan. But to her, it felt like a battle zone. "I thought parents screamed at each other all the time.” "I didn't know any different." Yet one silver lining shone brightly over the gloom: visits to her great-aunt Shirley's farm.
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Rodney Robinson is this 2019's National Teacher of the Year. He says he strives to make his teaching culturally relevant to his students: "You have to use what your kids know and what your kids experience," he says, " to create a positive learning environment for them."
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A young liver recipient meets the donor who saved her life.
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“ … What I’m realizing is, no matter how passionately I commit to being an ally, and no matter how unwavering my support is for NBA and WNBA players of color, I’m still in this conversation from the privileged perspective of opting in to it … Every day, I’m given that choice — I’m granted that privilege — based on the color of my skin. “
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George Berzsenyi is a retired math professor living in Milwaukee County. Most people have never heard of him. Berzsenyi has … mentored thousands of high school students, including some who became among the best mathematicians and scientists in the country.
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Ahead of the 3/14/19 matchup between the Utah Jazz and the Minnesota Timberwolves, Jazz owner Gail Miller delivers a message to fans and players in which she says “we are not a racist community.
How you handle anger and frustration says a lot about you as a person. The Inuit people have a very unique outlook on anger especially when it comes to raising their children. Take a listen to this short but enlightening podcast.
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Lucy McBath came to politics through tragedy: her teen-age son, who was black, was shot by a white man after an altercation over the volume of the boy’s car stereo. Seven years later, she’s the newly elected congresswoman representing Georgia’s Sixth District, a seat once held by Newt Gingrich.
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A onetime gang member, Cruz mediated disputes informally for years before being recruited by an organization called Cure Violence. Their trained mediators, or “interrupters,” will show up after shootings or at funerals, and talk down the people who are likely to retaliate. Cruz now leads Cure Violence projects in Latin America and elsewhere. But she still mediates in her old neighborhood, where the stakes are very high …
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Denise Ho was one of the most popular singers in Asia. She performed the style known as Cantopop. But she says, I started to think, Should I be doing more?” She began to sing about issues like the lives of marginalized people, political freedom, and mental illness. But when Ho became associated with the Umbrella movement, in which protesters demanded civil liberties promised to Hong Kong by Beijing, the government took action.
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Maria Caffrey, a researcher for the National Park Service is interviewed by Reveal’s Elizabeth Shogren about her experience as a climate change researcher under the Trump Administration. Her website is http://mariacaffrey.com/
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Paula Green's brainchild wound up reaching across the political spectrum to the coal-country town of Whitesburg, Kentucky … in order to spark a dialogue. Two years later … members of the two groups say they not only have a profound understanding of what motivates one another, but also friendships they anticipate will last a lifetime.
“ … Sakran knows the pain of gun violence because he is a survivor of it; when he was 17, he took a bullet to the throat after a high school football game. Maybe that's why he felt the need to do something when the NRA tweeted on Nov. 7, "Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane …".
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Financial literacy isn't a skill -- it's a lifestyle. Take it from Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll. While in prison, he taught himself how to read and trade stocks, and now he shares a simple, powerful message: we all need to be more savvy with our money.
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Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar talks about how hard it actually is to get into the United States as a refugee and whether she’d meet with President Trump.
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