By John Lewis– “Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find he had been transformed into a gigantic cockroach.” So reads the first sentence of Franz Kafka’s 1915…
By John Lewis– As I skimmed through my yearbook at my 40th high school reunion a few years ago, I stumbled upon my friend and fellow band member Marilyn Grant’s…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– “Don’t Kill Innocent People in the Name of Religion.” So read a wall mural in Kolkata, India, which we happened upon when we were…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– Illinois Senator Richard Durbin called it “shameless”; Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar: a “sham.” They were, of course, talking about last week’s unprecedented U.S. Senate…
By Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis– Jacquelyn Brittany got up the morning of December 16, 2019, and went to her job as a security guard at The New York Times…
By John Lewis– I’ve been a “political junkie” since I was 10 years old and followed every presidential election closely ever since. Naturally, I was very excited when I could…
By John Lewis– On a warm summer evening in 1987, I found myself hanging out in the heart of the medieval main square of Krakow, Poland, with my three new…
By Stuart Gaffney– My father died last month at age 96. He was a remarkably gifted and talented economics professor, who The New York Times reported “was at the forefront”…
By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney– On June 24, the LGBTIQ movement lost one of its greatest unsung heroes, Harry Britt. As not nearly enough people know today, Harry Britt…
By John Lewis and Stuart Gaffney– Over six decades ago, courageous queer Americans fought for their dignity and livelihood in the face of the so-called “Lavender Scare,” the 1950s federal…
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