There were many heroes who risked their lives and in some cases lost their lives during the zenith of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1968 (from Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 until MLK's assassination in Memphis…

While I was on vacation in Montana, our good friend Father Joe passed. What a remarkable servant of God he was. I first met Father Joe in 1985 and several years later was honored to represent him in a lawsuit…

This is the second of a two-part series on the abuses of the PRC in China. Last month discussed the crushing of dissent in Hong Kong by arrests, imprisonment, the shutting of independent newspapers, the purging of libraries and the…

As the imprisonment of gentle and courageous people in Hong Kong continues unabated by the thugs who run The People's Republic of China, it is time to honor the multitude of courageous people who engage in non-violent protest and condemn…

Today, as I write this tribute to Dr. Milan Brandon, it has been exactly 60 years since I first went to his office on Fourth Avenue in an old Victorian house that still stands. I was 11 years old and…

My hero of the month is Shon Boney. The Boney family were very good friends of my family dating back to the late 1930s when my dad Earl Roberts first met Henry Boney (Shon's granddad). My dad lived in La…

When I first met Render Crayton, the man who was to become my friend, in Sun Valley, Idaho in the 1990s, I was struck by something that set him apart from my other neighbors and friends: a rare combination of…

Cruz Reynoso was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to the California Supreme Court in 1982 and served four years until he was swept out of office with Chief Justice Rose Bird and Associate Justice Joseph Grodin in the re-call election…

In 2005, I had the pleasure of meeting Nina Rosenwald at her office in The Chrysler Building in New York City while leading a national referendum in the Presbyterian Church USA. Later, I learned that she was the granddaughter of…