By Alyssa Cobbs, manager, strategic projects In The Great Believers, author Rebecca Makkai transports the reader from Chicago in the 1980s, where a group of friends is experiencing illness and death as a result of ...

During a meeting at the Tuskegee Negro Conference in 1914, Booker T. Washington provided a statistical report on the steeping mortality rates of African Americans and expressed his growing concern with the poor health conditions ...

Allen Thornell dedicated his life to achieving equality for all. When he saw people treated unfairly, he took it personally. He tackled challenges others thought were impossible and did so without expecting anything in return. ...

We participants in the Higher Ground Group have the rich opportunity to dialog with each other, but far more importantly, to meet a broad variety of audiences in our city. We are searching for different ...