By Marian Wright Edelman
Honoring Legendary Author Alex Haley And Our African Roots
Photos: YouTube\Facebook “I feel that [my ancestors] do watch and guide, and I also feel that they join me in the hope that this ...
Finding Facts Regarding Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines Critical For Black America
Photos: YouTube Child advocate Marian Wright-Edelman in the following piece talks about systemic racism in American healthcare, the current impact of health disparities now ...
Black History Month And Tribute To Carter G. Woodson
Carter G. Woodson. Photo: Wikipedia,org Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the son of former slaves, a pioneering Harvard-trained historian, and the founder of the Association ...
Where Does America Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
In Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote about Dr. Kirtley Mather’s 1944 book “Enough and ...
Dr. Howard Thurman: A Litany of Thanksgiving
Photo: YouTube On this Thanksgiving I share again as I have over the years this beautiful prayer of our great Black theologian Dr. Howard ...
GRIEF AND HOPE IN ERA OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC
[Child Watch Column] Wright-Edelman: “In these times, we must all hold on to hope and have faith that we can and will overcome.” Photo: ...
MARION WRIGHT-EDELMAN: A PANDEMIC PRAYER FOR CHILDREN EVERYWHERE
[Marian Wright-Edelman Child Watch Column] Wright-Edelman: Resented by some of those forced to care for them in too often inhumane child welfare and juvenile ...
COVID-19 AND CHILDREN: “IS THIS EVER GOING TO END?”
[COVID-19\Children] 16-year-old Jaelynn asked a question many of us have: “Is this ever going to end, or is this something we’re going to have ...
COVID-19: AMERICA’S VULNERABLE AND POOR CHILDREN NEED MORE RELIEF HELP
[COVID-19\Children’s Welfare] Edelman: Millions of children have lost the stability and routines that all children and parents depend on…”Vulnerable children in this unprecedented crisis ...
U.S. Apocalypse–Guns Kill 3,410 Children Yearly
Photo: West Midlands Police. Wikimedia Commons. On November 6, 17-year-old Da’Qwan Jones-Morris, a former Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® scholar from St. Paul, ...
