Teaching all children about our shared history by exposing them to books by excellent authors like Carole Boston Weatherford and others who are part of the...
“While we reported on the 73 million children in the U.S. in 2019, which is 22 percent of the nation’s population, we also note that 2020...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Like so many, I have been deeply disturbed by the senseless loss of Black male lives at the hands...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The recent spotlight on systematic racial profiling and police brutality against Black boys and men has exposed a painful...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “For in a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. This...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist This is the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools® program’s 20th anniversary. More than 135,000 children across the country have...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “Before I went to jail, I didn’t know about a lot of stuff, and, now that I’m aware, I’m paranoid....
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “Before I went to jail, I didn’t know about a lot of stuff, and, now that I’m aware, I’m paranoid....
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In his speech the night before his murder Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. repeated the Biblical parable of the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “It was a generation ago that Harry Truman said, and I quote him: ‘Millions of our citizens do not...