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Republican Healthcare: Prayers For Children To Be Protected From Evil Adults

Senator McConnell–architect of evil Senate healthcare bill. Photo. Gage Skidmore–Flickr Dr. Gardner Taylor, pastor emeritus, Concord Baptist Church, at the 1996 sermon at the ...

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U.S. Education Inequality And The Cradle To Prison Pipeline

Marian Wright Edelman Those unable to read and compute and graduate from high school are being sentenced to social and economic death This has ...

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Follow California’s Lead: Extend Healthcare Coverage To All Undocumented Children

Marian Wright Edelman   Recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey show the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is working and ...

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UP From Incarceration: The Self Re-Education Of Ndume Olatushani

  Redlined for Failure and the Prison Pipeline Ndume Olatushani is an artist, organizer, and a passionate advocate for justice who works with the ...

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Tribute: Dr. Vincent Harding’s Call to Make America A Better America

Dr. Vincent Harding [Tribute] When my brother friend Dr. Vincent Harding passed away May 19 at age 82, we lost a beloved historian, theologian, ...

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Ella Baker Was My Civil Rights Generation’s “Fundi”

Ella Baker [Women’s History Month Tribute: Ella Baker] This is how Ella Baker put it: Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, ...

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Some Children Starve When Schools Close For Winter Storms

Marian Wright Edelman; guardian angel to American children some of whom get regular meals only at school [Comment] Some children cheer when schools close ...