by Gary Hume | Oct 29, 2014
James Smallwood was homeless, drug-addicted, and bug-infested. Knowing he might die on the streets, he got himself into a rehabilitation center and promised God that he if got clean, he would help others. Smallwood beat his cocaine dependency and is now fulfilling his...
by Karen M. Sughrue | Oct 24, 2014
High school dropout rates for Hispanic teens in Texas are three times those of whites and 30 percent higher than the rates for African Americans. Jose-Pablo Fernandez, former director of the Mexican Institute of Houston, knew he needed to try something new to improve...
by Gary Hume | Oct 17, 2014
When apartments are converted to co-ops and condominiums, too often affordable housing is lost. Since 1995, Americans have lost more than 300,000 affordable apartments to such conversions or to deterioration in weak markets; hundreds of thousands more are at risk....
by Gary Hume | Oct 17, 2014
Kathy Eldon’s work was born out of loss. Her son, Dan, a photojournalist on assignment in Somalia, was stoned to death by an angry mob in 1993. He was just 22. As a teenager, Dan had helped support a Masai family and led a group of international teens to deliver...
