José. José.
Summarized from: Baní to The Land, J-Ram a giant among marginalized youth By Anthony Castrovince, Cleveland, September 17, 2023.One day last summer, José Ramirez was telling the youngsters in the local…
Hundreds of children left behind by UN personnel in Haiti. Mothers want justice.
Caitlin Hu, Etant Dupain and Paula Newton, edited by Eliza Anyangwe and Eliza Mackintosh,CNN. (Summarized) Dajabón, DR, and Les Cayes, Haiti Lina found out she was pregnant with twins, First she felt…
Amazing Celia
Cecilia, I'm down on my kneesI'm begging you please to come homeCome on home.*The amazing Celia Fiennes was born in 1662, two miles from Stonehenge, in Newton Toney, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Celia and my…
A Great Story
Rehan Staton, a former Maryland sanitation worker, is graduating from Harvard Law School. “I got lucky, but I made the most of my luck.” I just happened to be around people…
Memory from Russia
From my uncle's memoir, American Inscape Her earliest memories included seeing an old Jew in the shtetl burst through their door with blood gushing down him as he fell squealing…
Paris Davis, black Green Beret in Vietnam, FINALLY Awarded Medal of Honor at White House
Retired Army Col. Paris Davis, 83, stood in the East Room of the White House last week as President Joe Biden draped the Medal of Honor around his neck, 58 years after…
More Brilliance
While reading about Marian Croak, I discovered Patricia Era Bath (1942 –2019), an American ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian, and academic who invented an improved device for laser cataract surgery, the Laserphaco Probe. Firsts:…
One Brilliant Woman!
I don’t know if it was The View or CBS Sunday Morning but between the two I learned about a woman I had never heard about before: Marian Rogers Croak. Marian Croak Marian…