Even though #America keeps breaking my heart, I'm a professional. I have work to do. I'm back in Washington, D.C., ahead of Sunday's "Alt Right" rally for groups associated with white supremacy, white nationalism and neo-Nazism. There are so many times when the political and socio-economic turmoil in America is almost overwhelming, and the frustration makes me want to book a flight and never look back. But I have an interview with the Director of D. C.'s Department Public Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt today, and with Mayor Muriel Bowser tomorrow, for my National Geographic feature on maternal mortality. Just writing those words brings me back to the core reality that millions of people of African descent suffered and died on these shores so that one day a little black girl born in poverty in Cairo, Illinois could grow up and interview the Mayor of the nation's Capitol. So I guess if the foremothers and fathers could stand firm in the face of evil, I can, too. #Resist #Unbowed #MLK50 #StillIRise …see more