A Juneteenth Reflection on Carrie Adelia Gabriel Today is Juneteenth. I have been sitting with that all morning, because there is one story I cannot separate from this date, and it belongs to a woman named Carrie Adelia Gabriel. I never met Fred Rogers. I wish I had. He has been one of my mentors …
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The President Who Gave My Family a Chance: Ronald Reagan, Immigration, and the American Dream
A President’s Day Reflection Today is President’s Day, and while most people are enjoying a three-day weekend, I’m thinking about a president who changed my life forever. Not through a tweet, a press conference, or a political slogan. But through an act of moral courage that gave millions of people—including me and my parents—the chance …
Robert Larios 