Marian Wright Edelman
Inspiration: Children Need To See Themselves Reflected In Books’ Characters
Tonya Bolden As a new school year starts, many parents are making sure their children have the right supplies from their back-to-school lists and ...
Unthinkable Lives of Many Black Boys: Missing Caring Adult Mentors
Marian Wright Edelman What’s on the minds of many high school students these days—the start of a new school year, getting a driver’s license, ...
Why Black Youth Commit Suicide — Male Death Rates Doubled
Dr. Sean Joe “If I tell you a smile could save a life, would you believe me? A smile can save a life. There ...
Freedom Schools: Teachers As Frontline Soldiers
Marian Wright Edelman This is the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools® program’s twentieth anniversary. Since the program began more than 135,000 children across the ...
BEYOND FERGUSON: CRIMINALIZING POVERTY IN AMERICA
The DOJ investigation following Michael Browns killing exposed Ferguson’s financially-driven criminalization scheme “Held captive” is how one 13-year-old described the feeling of growing up ...
Why Give $27 Billion In Estate-Tax Breaks For Rich When We Can Create Affordable Housing For Low-Income Families?
Marian Wright Edelman More than 88,000 people have applied to enter the “poor door” at a new luxury condominium tower on the Upper West ...
Reforming School Disciplining Policies And Practices Nationally
Marian Wright Edelman No child is expendable and every child deserves a right to learn I believe the purpose of public schools is ...
We, The People: Remembering Freedom Summer
Bob Moses Preamble to the U.S. Constitution: We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ...
310 Million U.S. Civilian Guns: Grief In A Nation Flooded With Weapons
Marian Wright Edelman On June 14th I had the honor of giving the undergraduate commencement address at Seattle Pacific University. Commencement speakers usually do ...
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, ...
