‘Most fortunate man’: LINC’s founder at 100
To find Bert Berkley, you push a doorbell set in a ceramic rainbow trout, and the man himself, on the verge of 100, stands at the threshold, beckoning visitors into […]
Calling all fathers (and father figures): Hickman Mills’ men’s summit aims to start a movement
The idea started from a conversation Ruskin High School Principal Ernest J. Fields Jr. had with the district’s hearing officer about the officer’s meetings with students in trouble and their […]
LINC children find power and peace in yoga
Dreamy music rises in a classroom lit by slanting afternoon light. Children lie face-up on mats, limbs splayed. “The peace . . .” says their instructor, seated at the center, […]
Wandering souls find Kansas City roots with help of Black History Project
When you’re living in a car with your child, Black history echoes somewhere outside of the pressing needs for food and shelter and hope. Those were the Memphis years for […]