By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “The budget is not fair, Mr. Chair, if 69 percent of the cuts come from programs for low-income children...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist A perennial favorite science project from preschool on up is the “seed experiment.” That’s when a child plants identical seeds...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ran on a campaign to fund full-day public preschool for all New York...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “. . . We see repeated efforts in Congress in recent years to take resources away from poor and...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Today, almost one year after I first wrote about Ka’nard Allen, his story—and the stories of several other children whose...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Women’s History Month is a reminder that in every major American social reform movement, women have always played a...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist One of our country’s most cherished values is the idea that if you work hard you can get ahead,...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Seventeen-year-old Theresa Tran is one of this year’s winners of the Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio’s Beat the Odds® scholarships after...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist During this Black History Month, I was deeply honored to be inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame at the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist The headlines in the case were sadly familiar. An angry adult armed with a gun used it to shoot...
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 Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite living in the world’s richest economy with a gross domestic product of $15.7 trillion, America’s children,...
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 James Clingman NNPA Columnist Brother A. Peter Bailey wrote a very enlightening article, titled, “Black Leaders, Past and Present, Speak on the Need for...
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...
