19 Sep Higher Education in Race, Rights and Redemption
JustUS Voices Storyteller Romarilyn Ralston applauds Michelle Jones whose Harvard admission was revoked once school officials learned details of her criminal record....
No Wrong Answers – Blog
08 Sep Through the Eyes of a Child: Witness and Victim
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I will always love my mother. Sometimes I’ve hated her, grieved for her, empathized with her and fully cared about her well-being. Even as I have compassion, at times I loathed her. How can I hold such a far-flung range of feelings for...
24 Jul Care Not Cages
About thirteen years ago, I sat alone on a stainless-steel stool, shivering cold, in a concrete cell in Southern California. For the first time in my life I contemplated how might I survive living in a cage....
12 Jul We Deserve Success
Sometimes it is hard to celebrate yourself. Maybe you feel like an imposter. A fake. Like you don’t deserve it. Or maybe it is because you don’t remember what happiness feels like anymore and it scares you....
30 Jun Child Reunification: Easier said than Done
As it was when I was free, so it was while incarcerated. I received hate mail from every side. I had burned all my bridges. But if I was to survive, I knew I needed to focus on how to make that happen....
02 Jun Giving Birth to the Narrative
Award-winning Philadelphia-based writer Diane McKinney-Whetstone, author of five page-turning novels, was enlisted to support JustUS Voices guided storytelling. Here she offers insights on creating the narrative. ...
02 Jun Teresa Hodge’s TEDx Talk Exemplifies The Art of Storytelling.
Teresa Hodge is co-founder of the D.C.-based Mission: Launch, Inc., a nonprofit organization that introduces technology and entrepreneurship to formerly incarcerated individuals....
07 Apr It’s Never Too Late
It’s never too late. Everyone has the ability to soar....