Marian Wright Edelman
Children From Foster Care: From Hardship to Hope
Marian Wright Edelman I am so grateful to Amy Peters, Sixto Cancel, and Ashley Kuber and for the thousands of other foster care alumni ...
Building On Civil Rights Movement: From Freedom Summer to Freedom Schools
[Comment] As a brand-new law school graduate in 1963, I was fortunate enough to receive one of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)’s first ...
Our Nations Schools — Still Effectively Separate And Unequal
Marian Wright Edelman In the spring of 1954, like so many Black families, mine waited anxiously for the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme ...
Seed Experiment: With Children We All Reap What We Sow
Marian Wright Edelman A perennial favorite science project from preschool on up is the “seed experiment”: A child plants identical seeds in two pots. ...
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, ...
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 ...
Celebrating CHIP: Why Every Child In America Needs Healthcare Coverage
Marian Wright Edelman We’re used to making a big fuss over children’s birthdays, but this week child advocates and families across the country are ...
U.S. Education: Towards Dismantling Industrial Cradle To Prison Pipeline
Marian Wright Edelman — nation’s number one children’s advocate In ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?’ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ...
Honor Madiba Nelson Mandela By Supporting His Dream — A Children’s Hospital
Mandela — inspiring the next generation Last month, all across the world people joined together to mourn former South African president and freedom fighter ...
Ask What You Can Do To Help Advance Kennedy’s Unlived Dreams
[Commentary: National] “It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America ...
