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 NEWSWIRE — “Part of the reason the system is broken is that the very people it is intended to help and serve are not being...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “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...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It is out of sincere love that we share Sinbad, our beloved husband, and father, is recovering from a recent stroke,” the comedian’s...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “For far too long, persistent poverty communities have suffered from neglect and indifference, leading to a lack of access to quality schools, affordable...
SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — Whether you ask a parent, a teacher or even a college student like me, creating a better world for kids is...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Though we face unprecedented challenges and threats to the safety and well-being of America’s children, we refuse to go backwards. No matter who...
Marian Wright Edelman says that we owe all of the children who have fought for civil rights a debt of gratitude. In July, thousands of students...
By Marian Wright Edelman (President, The Children’s Defense Fund) The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act recently passed on a nearly straight party line Republican vote in...
By Marian Wright Edelman (President, Children’s Defense Fund) Our nation’s budget should reflect our nation’s professed values, but President Trump’s 2018 Federal Budget, “A New Foundation...
By Marian Wright Edelman (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Even a superficial look at history reveals that no social advance...
By Marian Wright-Edelman (President, Children’s Defense Fund) “In the shadow of the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the King Memorial, and the front yard of the...
By Marian Wright Edelman (President of the Children’s Defense Fund) “So Dad has joined the other [ancestors] up there. I feel that they do watch and...
By Marian Wright Edelman (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Every day I wear a pair of medallions around my neck with portraits of two of my role...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist After the horror of the racist terrorist murders in Charleston, S.C., many of us have been crying out with...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist What’s on the minds of many high school students these days—the start of a new school year, getting a...
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 On any given day, nearly one in four children in foster care is taking at least one psychotropic...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The odds were stacked against Britiny Lee before she was born. Her mother was addicted to drugs, like Britiny’s...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Congress is about to strike a deal that takes care of seniors and doctors but leaves low-income and “at-risk”...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Too much and for too long, we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist One of my sheroes is Sojourner Truth. A brilliant but illiterate woman, she was a great orator and powerful...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In the wake of Ferguson and a series of young Black male deaths at the hands of official law enforcement...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In a season focused on gratitude, 17-year-old Monica Chica has an attitude about choosing to be grateful that’s wise far...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “I decided that my education was the most important thing that I could ever have, because without your education, you...