Children’s Defense Fund
“Give Light And People Will Find The Way”
Photos: YouTube Earlier this year, members of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® team and other colleagues had opportunity to attend a training ...
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 ...
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 ...
Freedom Schools Program and the Struggle to Provide Effective Education to marginalized Communities
Marian Wright Edelman. Photo: YouTube Close your eyes and think about the words summer school. What comes to mind? If you picture a ...
Tribute to Lucy Durr Hackney: Fighter for Justice and Civil Rights
Marian Wright Edelman. Photo: YouTube [Commentary] When Lucy Durr married Sheldon Hackney in 1957, the custom alterations to her beautiful gown ...
Commentary: This Tuesday, Vote For The Future of America’s Children
Marian Wright Edelman “That candidates were answering to us was really powerful. I was really glad I got to be a ...
Hate That Hate Creates: We Must Stop Destroying our Children
Marian Wright Edelman. Photo-Flickr. [Commentary] Joseph Miles is 51 years old, but says he spends a lot of time today thinking about the following ...
Over 3,400 Children -and teens- Killed By Guns Each Year: Where Is Leadership President Trump?
Gunman Nicolas Cruz. NBC news screenshot Violence against children. For many people the words alone are unthinkable—the absolute worst of what humans are capable ...
No Texas, Black Folk Didn’t Come On The Mayflower — Plymouth Rock Landed On Them
Page from Texas Text book Theodore Roosevelt once said: “The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.” ...
NAACP To Honor Julian Bond And Legacy Tonight
The late Julian Bond The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the National Board of Directors will honor the legacy ...
