

Gifts of Moments: Being Somebody to Somebody
In a new series of blogs, I will discuss the inspiration and motivation behind each of the eight books I have published. I begin with the...


Healthcare - who owns it?
Shortly after East Texas State University merged with the Texas A&M University System and became Texas A&M University-Commerce, President...


We Shall Overcome! Part 2
Decades after singing We Shall Overcome at numerous mass meetings, I gradually started giving more thought to the song’s title, which was...


We Shall Overcome! Part 1
In 2013, I was privileged to be interviewed for the PBS documentary, Freedom Summer, which chronicled the Civil Rights Movement in...