The real test of their courage was waiting in a city where officials demanded more than just tickets, and where a simple request for a…
The weight of 4 days on the run, 4 days of constant fear, was visible in the slump of Ellen’s shoulders, in the way William’s…
They had 3 days to perfect the performance, 3 days to transform completely. And then on the morning of December 21st, they would walk out…
“Good Lord, what are you doing in Richmond? Does your master know you’re here?” Other people on the platform were beginning to turn, drawn by…
During their 19 years in England, they never stopped telling their story. They spoke at churches, at political gatherings, at anti-slavery conventions. They raised funds…

A boy walks through the gates of a refugee processing center in southern Lebanon. He’s maybe 16, 17 years old. Thin, dirty clothes, dust in…
Ellen and William boarded separately, as they had done every time before, each moving to their designated spaces in the carefully segregated world of southern…

On the morning of February 18th, 2010, a police chief in Dubai sat in a darkened room staring at a wall of screens. His name…
For the next four days, they would live inside the rolls that might save their lives. What neither of them knew yet was that this…
That test was still waiting for her somewhere between here and freedom in a hotel lobby where a pen and paper would become instruments of…
