Biden’s Policing Executive Order Brings Greater Accountability
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 25, 2022Contact: Dena L. Craig, Biden’s Policing Executive Order Brings Greater Accountability WASHINGTON— Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights issued the following statement on President Biden’s Executive Order to Advance Effective, Accountable Policing and Strengthen Public Safety: “Two years ago, George Floyd was brutally murdered by the...
Mettle Health’s Sonya Dolan: Illness And Death Are Not Just Medical Issues
DENVER - AUGUST 31: Ken Sheel, terminally ill with pancreatic cancer, embraces two of his children ... while seated next to his wife Jana during a home hospice visit on August 31, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. The non-profit Hospice of Saint John serves an average of 200 people at any given time, most of them homecare patients. The...
Drum majors for change: Civil rights leaders of 1961 teach us to confront injustice
My heroes are now in their 70s and 80s. That may seem like a strange thing to say given our youth-obsessed culture, but a 10-day road trip over the summer, during which I interviewed veterans of the fight for civil rights in 1961, convinced me that courage is the greatest superpower and that lessons learned 60 years ago can guide the fight against...
