Post-Election: A Participatory Democracy
Election results have yet to come in as I write this. We are all wondering whether the election will be resolved in a day or two or if something will […]
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Taking a Stand
Labor Day: The Story Behind It
Today Labor Day is primarily thought of as the long weekend that marks the end of summer, but Labor Day began as an outgrowth of the labor movement. Labor unions
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Former Newsboys of Detroit Doing Good
The Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund of Detroit has existed since 1914 as a way to assure that children not be forgotten at Christmas time. More than a century later, the
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Remembering September 11
Those of us who were alive on September 11, 2001 will never live long enough to forget that day. Whether we witnessed it on television, from the streets of Manhattan or D.C. or from farther away, there was the horror of watching the extraordinarily bright blue skies turn black from the terrorist attacks on our country.
How could we forget?
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The Pledge of Allegiance and How It Has Changed
As the Pledge of Allegiance became more widely accepted after its introduction in 1892, various groups weighed in on the wording. There have been alterations from the original wording penned
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Martin Luther King, Jr: Thoughts To Live By
This weekend we mark the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a man who changed America, and was only 39 when he was killed for making those changes. Civil rights
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