There’s a corner house not far from where we live where the owner, an older African-American woman named Lillian, was often outside gardening or watering in the early evening.

One of the lesser-known facts about former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir is that she had a granddaughter born with Down syndrome in 1950.

I remember watching the televised newscast of President George H. W. Bush signing the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) into law on July 26, 1990, thinking it was a “nice” law but couldn’t imagine that I would ever be much impacted by its passage.