There’s a photo I cherish of her and one of her best friends in life, my Auntie Lenore, standing in front of a sign that says, “Protest Birmingham atrocities. Write the president.”
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Like many of you, I’m spending today thinking about my mother. She was all of 5 feet, but she could move mountains, as she proved when she crossed an ocean at age 19 to study here.pic.twitter.com/NtPAEpeQs1
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She and my father met while they were active in the civil rights movement. My sister Maya and I actually joke that we grew up surrounded by a bunch of adults marching and shouting for this thing called justice. We were raised on stories of the upheaval and activism of the 1960s.
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My mother became a pioneering breast cancer researcher. She maintained her lab at Lawrence Berkeley until the day she died; she knew that the search for truth was a lifelong effort.
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From her, I learned to ask questions, gather evidence, and test hypotheses. I learned that no idea is too precious to be rigorously examined. I learned how to fight for justice and live a life of conscience, and I think of her every day.
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every day injustices should be called out, the same as every day Mother's should be honored...take your lame trolling some where else...maybe canada?
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Good for her, I wonder did she come legally?
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is legal. My turn, how about Melania coming - 2 more replies
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