Quick Note: While digging deeper into Debbie Gibson’s story — and how things turned after the spotlight faded — I stumbled on five more stories just as haunting. Different voices, same painful pattern. Here’s Debbie’s story — and the five others that stayed with me. There was a time when their voices poured out of … Read more
There are acts of courage that feel too large to measure. Not because they’re impossible to understand, but because they were chosen when no one would have expected anyone to choose them. Witold Pilecki’s story is one of those. In 1940, as Nazi forces tightened their grip on occupied Poland, he volunteered — not to … Read more
“The actual camp appeared like an untidy slaughterhouse. A pungent smell hung heavily in the air… The further we walked into the site, the stronger the smell of burnt flesh became, and dirty-black ash rained down on us from the heavens, darkening the snow… Innumerable exhausted, wretched figures with shrunken faces and bald heads were … Read more
It was August 1955 when Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago, stepped off a train in Mississippi for what was supposed to be a summer visit with family. The South he entered was not the America he knew. It was the Jim Crow South — where segregation was law, and Black lives were disposable … Read more