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1 week ago | 
dallasexaminer.com | Marian Wright Edelman
(Children’s Defense Fund) – Once again, this is the joyous time of year when families, friends and teachers are cheering on graduates of all ages who have worked so hard and made them all so proud.
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1 week ago | 
washingtoninformer.com | Marian Wright Edelman
Photo by Godisable Jacob on Pexels.com Once again, this is the joyous time of year when families, friends, and teachers are cheering on graduates of all ages who have worked so hard and made them all so proud.
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2 weeks ago | 
dallasexaminer.com | Marian Wright Edelman
(Children’s Defense Fund) – Some years ago, the award-winning agency Fallon Worldwide created a series of ads for a pro bono Children’s Defense Fund campaign called “Be Careful What You Cut” that warned sharply against budget choices threatening programs on which children and families rely. Striking images accompanied data making the irrefutable economic case that cutting investments in young people’s needs today costs all of us more in the long run.
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3 weeks ago | 
washingtoninformer.com | Marian Wright Edelman
Photo by Barbara Olsen on Pexels.com Mothers. Grandmothers. Women. We have so much work to do. So many mothers and infant lives to save. So many child dreams to realize and hopes to nourish and protect. Our countries and a common world to change, and such long distances to travel — from waging war to waging peace; from sickness and death to health; from doubt to faith in Creator’s feminine spirit within.
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3 weeks ago | 
carolinapanorama.com | Marian Wright Edelman
COMMENTARYThis month marked a Civil Rights Movement anniversary: the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in April 1960. People often forget that children and young people were major front-line soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement. Six-year-old Ruby Bridges in New Orleans, the Little Rock Nine at Central High School in Arkansas, and other Black students desegregated schools across the South – often standing up to howling mobs.
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4 weeks ago | 
stlamerican.com | Marian Wright Edelman
The 65th Anniversary of the birth of a historic civil rights movement organization was celebrated in April – the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). People often forget that children and young people were major front-line soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement. Six-year-old Ruby Bridges in New Orleans, the Little Rock Nine at Central High School in Arkansas, and other Black students desegregated schools across the South – often standing up to howling mobs.
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1 month ago | 
washingtoninformer.com | Marian Wright Edelman
Photo by fauxels on Pexels.com “Teaching children may be the highest way to seek God. It is, however, also the most daunting way, in the sense of the greatest responsibility.” — Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Nobel Prize laureate in literature, school leader and teacherEvery year, the first full week of May is a chance to show special gratitude and thanks to America’s teachers.
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1 month ago | 
dallasexaminer.com | Marian Wright Edelman
(Children’s Defense Fund) – This month marked a Civil Rights Movement anniversary: the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in April 1960. People often forget that children and young people were major frontline soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement. Six-year-old Ruby Bridges in New Orleans, the Little Rock Nine at Central High School in Arkansas, and other Black students desegregated schools across the South, often standing up to howling mobs.
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1 month ago | 
washingtoninformer.com | Marian Wright Edelman
Ella Josephine Baker This month marked a Civil Rights Movement anniversary: the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in April 1960. People often forget that children and young people were major front-line soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement.
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1 month ago | 
dallasexaminer.com | Marian Wright Edelman
(Children’s Defense Fund) – In 2020, when the start of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a holy season like no other, Pope Francis published an Easter Sunday letter directed to movements and organizations working for justice for people with low incomes and those experiencing poverty.
