GIFT MAGAZINE

As an angry teenager growing up in Brooklyn, Hashim Garrett was set up to be killed by his own gang. Narrowly surviving being shot 6...

School shootings have been on the rise over the past decade and it seems that as we reel from the last major shooting, the next one is...

Dr. Bernice King talks about what "The Gift of Our Wounds" means to her, in a personal and societal context

Musician and race relations expert Daryl Davis talking about how finding the gift in his wounds suffered as a child in a racist attack...

by Madeleine Black 22nd September 2014; it’s a date I’m likely never to forget. It’s the day that my story was shared publicly for the...

by Angie Aker I met her on the playground in the 2nd grade. Lena was shorter than me with luminous skin the color of mahogany, wide,...

by Arno Michaelis I didn’t want to go. Who wants to go somewhere where a million people were murdered? The men, women, and children who...

by Arno Michaelis My first memories of music involve a turntable and Beatles records at the neighbor kids' house. We listened to “Hard...

By Dydine Umunyana One must learn how to listen, not to be listened to. One must learn how to accept and then to be accepted. One must...

By Christopher Buckley ...that's the number of years I spent learning to dehumanize, hate, and ultimately kill Muslims. I grew up in what...

By Heval Kelli The wounds of my journey have left scars that many people perceive as reminders of suffering, but I look at them as an...

by Pardeep Singh Kaleka and Robin Gaby Fisher Excerpted from The Gift of Our Wounds My family story begins in the rural village of Dogal,...