Recent Emails

Only six days to Election Day. Friends,   The Freedom Ride has reached New Orleans, the stop the original Freedom Riders weren't allowed to reach by bus due to extreme racism and violence, and boy, what a feeling!   Especially six days away from Election...

Here's what I told The Telegraph. Friends,   Last week, on the Virginia State University campus in Petersburg, a reporter from The Telegraph asked me what I believe about Donald Trump.   I told her that I find him to be a moral void. And I really mean...

We have a week and a bus. Friends,   Sixty-five years later, Hank Thomas, a national hero and original Freedom Rider, got back on The Ride. We are so incredibly honored and...

We're giving this everything we have. Friends,   The Ride has been an incredible experience so far — and I'm proud to share our journey with you. At Clinton College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, people lined both sides of the sidewalk and applauded as our...

We owe them our democracy — and we owe it to them to take this journey. Friends,   We've been on The Ride for two days. Leaving the old Greyhound station in D.C., where the original Freedom Riders boarded in 1961, put the stakes of this journey into focus —...

There's singing on the bus right now. Friends,   Today is a day of joy — The Ride left Washington, D.C., from the historic Greyhound station where thirteen of the original Freedom Riders boarded a bus 65 years...