Teaching the Basics: Right and Wrong

By Chaquita Williams
 
                “What can I do to help?” she asked during the Depression of the Thirties, the civil rights movement of the Sixties and the desegregation of the Seventies.
                Thelma Vivian Grant Richardson, 82, has spent a lifetime trying to answer her own question.
                 For Richardson, the answer came through years of preparation [...]

Dying Promises

By: Sara O’Lena

Finally, I have a few minutes with my mom, just me and her. Well… me, her, and the night-shift nurse constantly walking in and out of the hospital room, checking her oxygen level, her blood pressure, her temperature, changing her IV every half an hour as it runs out of pain meds.
My [...]