Ebert seeks to elevate humanity through a series of principles she defines throughout the book — each of which is accompanied by worksheets to help put these principles into effect. Before I came to the Globe, I wrote for rogerebert.com for 11 years. In that time, I received a lot of advice from Chaz Ebert and her late husband, Roger. And not just about movies — I learned life lessons as well. So I was excited to talk to the CEO of Ebert Digital about her new book, “It’s Time...

Hertsgaard is the author of seven previous books that have been translated into a total of seventeen languages. He is the environment correspondent for The Nation and the executive director of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now Deborah “Big Red” Cotton and I met by getting shot together. It was a Mother’s Day afternoon during Barack Obama’s second term as America’s first Black president. We were two of 19 people gunned down in the biggest mass shooting in the modern history of New Orleans, a city stained by racism...

NEW YORK — President Joe Biden virtually addressed the Rev. Al Sharpton’s racial justice conference on Friday, telling a sympathetic crowd “we’ve kept our promises” as he ramps up efforts to energize Black voters who will be vital to his reelection bid this fall. Addressing several hundred attendees at the annual National Action Network Convention in New York, Biden ticked through a long list of what he said were some of his administration’s key accomplishments for Black Americans. He detailed providing federal public works funding to reconnect city neighborhoods that...