Imagine an Olympic-sized event celebrating cultural diversity, inclusiveness, and oneness in today’s turbulent world. I witnessed this recently at the National Mall in Washington D.C. A sea of people of all colors, diverse cultures, and varying costumes gathered...
Our culture at each level must be transformed from a culture of violence to a culture of nonviolence much like what Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. preached and practiced. “Protesters react to the Memphis Police Department dissolving the Scorpion...
Tennessee Voices: A Conversation with Dr. Manoj Jain “Dr. Manoj Jain, adviser to Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland on COVID-19, spoke with Tennessean Opinion Editor David Plazas.” Violence is in our neighborhoods, in our city and on our daily local news....
In a tuxedo with the microphone in hand, in a ballroom filled with over 400 family and friends, I spoke. “Planning a wedding is hard enough, but planning a wedding during a pandemic has been the greatest professional and personal challenge of my life.” I am an...