Speak Easy

The production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" at People’s Light and Theatre in Malvern, Pa., which included a multiracial ensemble of actors, stirred controversy.

Students do not need more firepower, police, metal detectors, and other trappings of the school-to-prison pipeline in their schools.

Sometimes a words seems built intentionally to trick us.

In my experience, social media helps keep me connected to my communities, but social media itself is not my community.

As we grow further apart, forming factions within our nation, as technology weakens our social skills, as more of us live alone, pets can be a source of unconditional love.

When I heard that students from my alma mater received Saturday detention for their participation in the National Student Walkout, I had one reaction: shame.

While we have always shared many of the concerns championed by the mainstream women’s movement, we have never had the luxury of fighting a singular fight.

Adults are constantly telling our youth that ... not only does our opinion not matter, but we don’t have the capabilities to imprint a change.

17 minutes is not enough to voice our concerns and highlight the fear that we hold within ourselves every day.

America can never have just laws and policies, or a system that brings equality to everyone, if the caretakers and decision makers of our legal institutions are mostly white.

"During the civil rights movement, or any other movement in this country, there are women of color pushing the moral conscience of our country to do better."

I’m not a mom. But I am a daughter, sister, and aunt committed to changing my status from passive observer to activist against mass shootings.

It turns out trading people's Medicaid and Medicare coverage for tax cuts for the very richest is not a winning message.

America’s teachers don’t need guns. What they need is a commitment to preserve schools as places where students and staff feel safe and nourished.