Len Morris
The messages from Kenya begin arriving as early as 3 a.m.
It had been two years since the United Nations conducted its business in person, a period when world affairs veered dangerously out of control.
On Dec. 26, Archbishop Desmond Tutu died at age 90 in Cape Town, South Africa. He was a giant of human rights, and an inspiration to me.
I recently attended a dedication ceremony at The Dodd Center for Human Rights at the University of Connecticut.
I never met Richard Robinson, who died in Chilmark at 84 years of age last week. But 100 million children he never met are alive today because of his vision and commitment.
It was August 2004 and I had come to Washington to produce an oral history interview for Columbia University’s Women in Law Project.