The novel ‘At the Center’ portrays the vagaries of a bureaucratic system responsible for addressing society’s ills Sixty-year-old Sylvia Jensen is a veteran social worker and supervisor of a crucial program responsible for the placement of vulnerable chil ...
12 Nov 2015 - Joe Martin
Early in her life, author Lacy M. Johnson was made aware of her good looks. When she was only 7 years old, her mother entered her lovely blonde daughter into a beauty pageant: “In the pictures, I don’t look like a child of 7. I walk in that sashaying page ...
19 Nov 2014 - Joe Martin
The death of Karamchand Gandhi in 1885 would have momentous consequences. At the time, his son Mohandas was in his teens and already married. In the wake of his father’s death his mother Putlibai became the family’s matriarch. She must have been remarkabl ...
23 Sep 2014 - Joe Martin
Twelve Angry Men: True stories of being a black man in America today [caption id="attachment_5648" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="This booking photo released by the Cambridge, Mass., Police Dept., shows Harvard s ...
12 Aug 2011 - Street Roots