by Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “I’ll take anyone,” Davion said. “Old or young, dad or mom, black, white, purple. I don’t care. And I would...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “In the 1960s, when my grandfather was teaching me to drive in his little red Ford Falcon, there was an...
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 Since the government was forced to shut down on October 1, one of the most common refrains has been...
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 “There’s something evil in our society that we as Americans have to work to try and eradicate…I would like...
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 In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, is as important as the killing of White mothers’ sons,...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist My heart was shattered while I was working at 60 Minutes when my only sister was shot and killed by her husband....
