By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Some children cheer when schools close for winter storms, but there are hungry children in America right now for...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist We’re used to making a big fuss over children’s birthdays, but this week child advocates and families across the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Carter G. Woodson, son of former slaves, pioneering Harvard-trained historian, founder of the Association for the Study of African...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States is still not a fair...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In many American schools, the holiday celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is used as an opportunity to...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Children are not little adults. Adolescents are not the same as adults. We’ve known this for years. The research...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist All across the world last month, people joined together to mourn former South African president and freedom fighter Nelson...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In the last few days of the year, most Americans are wrapping up their holiday celebrations and pondering the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist As millions of Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Christmas and their belief that God entered human history as...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist While many American families gathered around the Thanksgiving table last week, some of us combined this year’s traditional dinners with...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home....
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Nine-year-old Jaime Gordillo Villa was born in the United States and is a good student who has gotten awards for...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist [We found that] if we created the right wraparound programs, the right preschool programs that were strong enough and rigorous...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Doctors told Jaime Gonzalez’s parents that his birth defects were so severe he probably wouldn’t live to age one....
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist These are the words of an 18-year-old who recently graduated from high school in a high-poverty neighborhood in the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “You see a lot of teachers judge and stigmatize their students based on where they come from. A lot of...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Why is the National Rifle Association so afraid of the truth? There are many misconceptions about guns and gun...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “My friends are dead. I saw the bad man. He was next to me when we ran out.” “I played...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “It will not be sufficient for Morehouse College, for any college, for that matter, to produce clever graduates, men...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist As New Year’s Eve countdowns wound down, many people turned to the familiar ritual of taking stock of where...
