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From The New York Times: Bill Cosby Found Guilty of Sexual Assault After Years of Accusations A jury in Pennsylvania voted to convict Mr. Cosby of sexually assaulting a former Temple University staff member who had looked up to him as a mentor. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/arts/television/bill-cosby-guilty-retrial.html   Bill Cosby convicted on three counts of sexual assault from Read More

International Women’s Day was adopted in 1975 by the United Nations. This year, the UN focus is on activism transforming women’s lives, throughout the globe: “The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March, is “Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives”. This year, International Women’s Day comes on the heels of unprecedented Read More

March 3rd is World Wildlife Day. Defenders of Wildlife are celebrating today, asking our support for the crucial work they do: “Defenders works on the ground, in the courts, and on Capitol Hill to protect and restore imperiled wildlife across North America and around the world. Together, we can ensure a future for the wildlife and wild Read More

The Environmental Defense Fund has designated today, February 27, International Polar Bear Day, to highlight the distress and instability polar bears confront because climate change has devastated their home. The EDF website has a beautiful Polar Bear Day slide show that will lighten your heart, make you smile, educate you and show just how much Read More

I have worked extensively as an attorney representing victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse, not only as an attorney but also as a court-appointed Guardian Ad Litem,  since the 1990s.  This work is in the front lines of stopping the violence of domestic and sexual abuse that has devastated so many of my clients, Read More

On Presidents’ Day, nestled in the middle of Black History Month, I celebrate the magnificent country in which we have the privilege and honor to live. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, seminal documents of our Founding Fathers, expect us, as citizen critics, to safeguard our form of government, a democratic republic. It is our Read More

I first learned of Repairers of the Breach while watching Joy Reid, the host of AM Joy on MSNBC, interview Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, who is the president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach. Rev. Dr. Barber served as president of the North Carolina NAACP, the largest state conference in the South, from 2006 Read More

“We have loved them during life; let us not abandon them until we have conducted them by our prayers into the house of the Lord.” St. Ambrose Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. May their souls, and the souls of all Read More

From the United States Senate: https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_and_teasers/SFRC_chairs_Biographies.htm Senator Arthur Vandenberg (1884-1951) of Michigan delivered a celebrated “speech heard round the world” in the Senate Chamber on January 10, 1945, announcing his conversion from isolationism to internationalism. In 1947, at the start of the Cold War, Vandenberg became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Asserting that we must stop “partisan politics Read More

As an attorney in legal services, I represented many victims of domestic violence. My representation of battered women was specifically funded by VAWA, the Violence Against Women Act, passed in 1994. These clients inspired me every day.  I watched them blossom, with the seeds of courage planted deep within, nurtured by family and friends, who Read More