There's a famous campaign slogan Republicans used in 1928 to usher President Herbert Hoover into the White House. It promised “a chicken for every…
There are a lot of things we could use more of these days. More kindness comes to mind. More people willing to stop bad actors, and hurtful,…
Gloria Steinem didn’t set out to be a feminist icon or liberator. She was a reporter who wanted to tell the truth about what she saw and…
Today, we remember Dolly Parton, a remarkable human being who left the world a kinder place while uplifting us all with her iconic songs, her…
Nancy Kassebaum, the former Republican Kansas senator known for her independence and voting across both sides of the aisle, passed last week,…
Christian Bale is one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, known for playing Batman and for his Oscar-winning performance in The Fighter. But one…
Most people dream about building a business worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Eddie Smith did exactly that. But when it came time to walk…
If we see people being treated unfairly, something inside of us says, This isn't right. Maybe we’ll keep our head down, or maybe we’ll step…
In 2015, when Elvis Summers lived in South Los Angeles, he passed by the same homeless woman almost every day.
Irene "Smokie” McGhee slept…
In the early 1990s, residents of Hinkley, California, were living with a mystery that was destroying lives. Families reported cancers, tumors,…
When we think of liberators, we don’t usually imagine a boy with a birthday cake and a guest list. But maybe that’s because we’ve misunderstood…
We may not recognize liberators at first sight. They don’t wear capes or carry signs announcing who they are. Most of the time, they look like…
Elizabeth Jane Chochran didn’t set out to be a liberator. But her disdain of injustice drove her into the darker, hidden corners of life that were…
For generations, women have made contributions that shaped the world we live in; advancing medicine, building technologies we rely on every day,…
It was just a couple of months ago that the ICE invasion of Minnesota shocked our country and the world. Fear swept through the Twin Cities as…
