Bobby Kennedy stood in a ghetto 52 years ago and spoke of love and justice in the hours after Martin Luther King was shot.The US could use a leader like that now.
Australians are asking me what they can do about the brutality they are witnessing in the US - the answer is in our backyard.
It was first used by a Miami police chief long accused of deploying racists tactics to patrol black neighbourhoods.
Anthony Ray Hinton had lost all hope before lawyer Bryan Stevenson took up his cause.
He shot to fame playing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. But within his extraordinary family,“cello bae” Sheku Kanneh-Mason isn’t quite so remarkable.
The comedian and actor took aim at social media giants in a speech but reserved his most biting critique for"unaccountable"Mark Zuckerberg.
Vice President Mike Pence quoted from King's"I Have a Dream"speech as he defended Trump's latest pitch to secure funding for a barrier along the US border.
Australian politics might be rancorous and ephemeral,but have we reached a crisis point? I am not convinced.