The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

We need to get back into grappling with people we disagree with if we want to restore the Republic.

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.