When my daughter was six, I bought a leather journal. I wrote a note to her almost every day. Sometimes it would be a life lesson. Sometimes it would simply say, “I love you.” Other days it might be ...

Jill Ewing Flynn, professor in the Department of English, contributed to Reckoning With the Whiteness of English Education: Transformative Pedagogies in English Language Arts and Beyond (Teachers ...

What do you genuinely care about? It’s a deceptively simple question, but one we often neglect answering for ourselves. As a result, we tend to focus our efforts and energies on tasks that don’t truly ...

Beautiful writing has always moved me, like this line from “The Dragon” by Ray Bradbury: "Now only the night moved in the souls of the two men bent by their lonely fire in the wilderness; darkness ...

Many people ask me what it means to know your power and what does it mean to become empowered. Becoming self-empowered means you come face to face with who you really are and what you really want.

What do Malcolm X, Oscar Wilde, and the 6th-century Roman senator Boethius have in common? They all wrote some of their best work from prison. Nobel Prize recipient Wole Soyinka spent 22 months in a ...

Ordinary people with extraordinary stories. That’s the ethos behind the Louisville Story Program which is celebrating ten years of amplifying unheard voices and untold stories. Jeffrey Brown went to ...