Posts by Ben Dawson

  • Harry Belafonte

    When Harry Belafonte died on April 25, many people were quick to honor him not only as a luminous, barrier-breaking singer and actor but as an outspoken lifelong crusader for civil and human rights. I am especially grateful for his enduring legacy as a champion for children in the United States and across the world.

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  • Gun Violence

    It’s Always the Guns

    On April 15 there were seven mass shootings, the most in a single day so far this year. All of these only-in-America atrocities took place the very same week that many Republican politicians were attending the National Rifle Association’s annual convention to pledge their allegiance to the gun lobby.

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  • Gun Violence

    Doing Something

    There is an overwhelming chorus urging elected leaders to "do something" to stem our national gun violence epidemic.

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  • A Ripe Time

    This special holy season this year, as many people are observing Ramadan, Passover, and Easter during the same week, is also fifty-five years to the week after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. It is as useful as ever right now to return to his last Sunday sermon, delivered at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1968.

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  • Gun Violence

    Beyond Thoughts and Prayers

    It happened again. This time, the mass school shooting was at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

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  • Praise for Wonderful Dr. Fauci

    As a physician and immunologist who has been an advisor to every president since Ronald Reagan and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush, Dr. Fauci has spent his entire professional life serving and helping others.

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