On December 10, 2023, the world will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations’ adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The United Nations (UN) is celebrating this special Human Rights Day... Read More

Somehow 2023 is already barreling towards the holiday season, and next week many will sit down with friends and family to give thanks and consume far too much pie. In this latest edition of our... Read More

Most people who know me, know that since 1968, I have been enamored with the film, The Planet of the Apes. I saw the film as a child thanks to my father. The movie’s multiple... Read More

Since the 1990s, activists in Latin America and the Caribbean have mobilized on September 28th in favor of decriminalizing abortion, increasing access, and making the procedure affordable. The date is not random—on September 28, 1871... Read More

I am often asked about being an artist or a poet by people. I can see that if I said that I am a lion tamer, or a space walker for NASA, people would know... Read More

On September 16, 2022, Iranian security forces brutally killed Jhina Mahsa Amini for allegedly wearing her state-mandated hijab improperly on her head in the capital city of Tehran. Importantly, Amini was Kurdish Iranian, an ethnic... Read More

While I would never consider myself a person of faith, I can make a case for a certain kind of faith, based on reason and experience, for which I am confident of outcomes. For instance,... Read More