"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said. This expresses my view on courage from an accurate point. I believe that courage is the only thing ...

Chloe Swagger, a seventh-grade student at West Middle School, and Uchechi Mba, an eighth-grade student at Sykesville Middle School, were among 20 winners in the Champions of Courage Black History ...

BOSTON – Few in academia might want to spend their down time grading papers, but Merry Conway, of Marion, did just that in early March as part of student literary event aimed at helping students ...

An error has occurred. Please try again. With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...

The Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews presented its annual Essay Awards on Tuesday to area middle- and high-school students during the group’s annual meeting. The fellowship awarded prizes ...

There was an era in children’s television, which has long since passed, when network executives seemed unsure whether their job was to entertain kids or scare them near to death. This period coincided ...

In his 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Profiles in Courage,” John F. Kennedy wrote about eight U.S. senators who had taken a political risk to stand upon principle. Since 1989, the Kennedy Library ...

My 11-year-old son, who we all call Little Brother, is incredulous when he finds out that my grandmother, his great-grandmother, was born in Japan. “We’re Japanese?!!” he asks. “No, we’re not,” I ...

You can’t buy peace of mind with money. —Johnson & Johnson. Making people feel better can make you feel better. —Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Co. The failure to communicate. Everybody worries about ...