By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Each year at Halloween, our neighborhoods are bustling as children go door to door dressed as zombies, vampires, skeletons or...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist With opportunity gaps widening for poor children and children of color, new guidance from the Office for Civil Rights in...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist While we rarely hear good news these days about Congress, I have some to share. Continuing a long tradition of...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist During the most critical period of Jessica’s childhood, adults who could have intervened to protect her from abuse let her...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “If I could sit down for freedom, you can stand up for children.” –Mrs. Rosa Parks, honorary co-chair, 1996 Stand for...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The purpose of public schools is to educate not exclude children, and to help identify and meet child needs, not...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Just released U.S. Census Bureau data reveal 45.3 million people were poor in America in 2013. One in three of...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist When many people hear child poverty in America the first stereotype is of an inner city child and discussions...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Across the country it’s back to school time. I hope it is a year full of promise and not disappointment...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Terrell Strayhorn, a brilliant Black Ohio State University professor, recently opened the Educational Testing Service and Children’s Defense Fund...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist We know the commonly repeated claim that there are more Black men in prison than in college isn’t true. But...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Bishop Minerva Carcaño, the Los Angeles Area Resident Bishop of the United Methodist Church, is acting with urgency. Along with...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist For years, the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx in New York, home to St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, was the...
By Marian Wright Edelman and Julia Cass Special to the NNPA There is a photograph of a back road near Philadelphia, Miss. that was the final stop...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “None of us had any real education in social change. I was a biology major and a preacher. And...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist It’s mid-July. Do you know if your children are learning? Just a month ago they were eager to leave the regimentation...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Nelba Márquez-Greene is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent her life helping others. In December 2012 she...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Michael Patrick MacDonald is a storyteller. Michael recently encouraged the crowd of young leaders at the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Those of us in Mississippi last week to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer know very well none of...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist On June 14th I had the honor of giving the undergraduate commencement address at Seattle Pacific University. Commencement speakers usually do...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist This column is not about the recent story making headlines in New York City on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Not every speaker tells a crowd of young leaders that their job is to get into trouble. But that’s...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist When my brother friend Dr. Vincent Harding passed away May 19 at age 82, we lost a beloved historian,...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “Foster care is not fun for anyone,” says 24-year-old law student Amy Peters, who entered Nebraska’s foster care system...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist As a brand new law school graduate in 1963 I was fortunate enough to receive one of the NAACP Legal...
