Family is the foundation that we all draw our strength from, and I am honored to be a part of helping someone else's family stay strong by staying close.

We're really rolling up our sleeves and getting into it. We have two houses to support now.

Last year we raised over $100,000.

Thanks to the corporate cowardice of Bank of America and other companies, the morally illegitimate reparations movement gains strength.

There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.

It's just shocking. We were supposed to have a big family dinner. Instead we're just trying to cope.