His work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, CBS News, The Crime Report and the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. About the top image: Grassroots advocates in Chicago have been holding a hunger strike and vigil since the middle of August in their effort to have Dyett High School become a community-based global studies and green school. Photo courtesy of Kenwood Oakland Community Organization. On Sept. 21, the hunger strikers stopped their protest. Their concerns remain. 2015 © Equal Voice for America’s Families Newspaper