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#NNPA BlackPress3 months ago

COMMENTARY: ‘Give Light and People Will Find the Way’

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...
#NNPA BlackPress2 years ago

Children’s Defense Fund: State of America’s Children Reveals that 71 Percent of Children of Color Live in Poverty

“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...
Op-Ed8 years ago

Child Watch: 10 Rules to Help Black Boys Survive

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...
Op-Ed8 years ago

Child Watch: How to Keep our Black Boys Alive

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...
Op-Ed8 years ago

Child Watch: What Do We Do After Charleston?

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...
Op-Ed8 years ago

Child Watch: Growing Seeds for a Multicultural, Multiracial Teaching Force

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...
Op-Ed8 years ago

Child Watch: End Youth Detention and Torture at Riker’s Island

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....
Op-Ed8 years ago

Child Watch: End Youth Detention and Torture at Riker’s Island

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....
Op-Ed8 years ago

Child Watch: Charity is Not a Substitute for Justice

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...
Op-Ed8 years ago

Child Watch: Protecting 50 Years of Child Health Progress

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...

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COMMENTARY: ‘Give Light and People Will Find the Way’

Children’s Defense Fund: State of America’s Children Reveals that 71 Percent of Children of Color Live in Poverty

Child Watch: 10 Rules to Help Black Boys Survive

Child Watch: How to Keep our Black Boys Alive

Child Watch: What Do We Do After Charleston?

Child Watch: Growing Seeds for a Multicultural, Multiracial Teaching Force

Child Watch: End Youth Detention and Torture at Riker’s Island

Child Watch: End Youth Detention and Torture at Riker’s Island

Child Watch: Charity is Not a Substitute for Justice

Child Watch: Protecting 50 Years of Child Health Progress

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California Family Whose Beachfront Properties were Seized 100 years ago, Sells Land Back to County for $20 Million

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Sheng Thao Sworn in as New Mayor of Oakland, Pledges New Direction for the City

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Report Reveals California Cops Explicit Bias against African Americans

Shirley Weber Sworn in as California’s First Elected Black Secretary of State

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