Power with, not power over
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Aug 15, 2019
3 minutes
I don't know if words can transform the world -- I know they can't bring back a murdered child -- but I have a few of them to scatter on the grave of Derrion Albert, the Chicago boy whose brutal slaying stunned the city and the nation:
I would ask that we sit with these words for a moment -- in his name, in the name of uncountable others -- until we feel a click of understanding, until profound possibility slides into place. We can make this a different sort of
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