Florida–land of sunshine and smiles? Not if you’re a tomato picker.
Florida’s newest attraction is a 24-foot box truck that replicates the one in which a family named Navarrete held 12 farm workers captive in Immokalee, Fla., from 2005 to 2007, forcing them to sort tomatoes in unbearable heat and beating them when they tried [...]

Georgia Ann Mullen will address girls ages 10-13 in the Girls, Inc. after school program on Tuesday, April 13 at 5:30 p.m. rather than April 5 as previously scheduled. The program is held at 1502 Castle St., Wilmington, NC.

When Cincinnati high school senior Olivia Morris organizes a dinner party, not all guests are created equal.
Some enjoy a catered meal, entertainment by a string quartet and Indian dancing. Others eat a piece of pita bread and a small bowl of rice. The least fortunate chase around the school searching for water and when [...]

The ball begins to roll. I received the first proof of the cover for Wixumlee Is My Salvation yesterday.
This cover will be quite a surprise to my readers, since it is very different from A Shocking & Unnatural Incident. And that’s fitting because Wixumlee is a very different book. It follows the story of [...]

It’s amazing what a little fame can do to further women’s rights.
Until Meryl Streep played her in a special reading of the play “Seven,” Inez McCormack’s campaign to secure better housing for women had received only two lines in the press.
“Meryl Streep playing me, I had 15 interviews in one day,” McCormack said. “And [...]