Tune Into Leadership

This past weekend, I attended an online remembrance for cultural leader, scholar, philosopher, and author Jean Houston, who made her transition in May. The event was hosted by Meridian University’s President Aftab Omer and Chief Academic Officer, Melissa Schwartz. Joining them ...

Our extended family came from every direction—Texas, Michigan, and Georgia; Virginia, Illinois, and California; from the East Coast, too, and across other parts of the U.S.A. — and for four days last weekend, we claimed Manhattan as our ground to stomp the blues.

Image from the Woodson Center’s newsletter

‍On May 19, visionary and civil rights leader Robert Woodson passed away at 89. For over four decades, he built his life's work around a single, tenacious conviction: that the peo...

“Hello, I’m Ben Franklin,” said the bespectacled man sitting across from me during lunch on June 26th at the dining hall on Temple University’s campus. The night before, the gentleman portraying Franklin, B.J. Pryor, had read the Declaration of Independence during the opening p...