Marian Wright Edelman

1 week ago | dallasexaminer.com | Marian Wright Edelman

(Children’s Defense Fund) – “A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway.

1 week ago | washingtoninformer.com | Marian Wright Edelman

“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar.

1 week ago | hudsonvalleypress.com | Marian Wright Edelman

By Marian Wright Edelman“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway.

2 weeks ago | stlamerican.com | Marian Wright Edelman

Now that Women’s History Month has concluded, there’s been one more broad attack on methods of sharing our nation’s history. On March 27, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order affecting the 21 museums and 14 education and research centers that are part of the Smithsonian Institution, including the American Women’s History Museum, which is still years away from breaking ground on its official site, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the National Zoo.

2 weeks ago | dallasexaminer.com | Marian Wright Edelman

(Children’s Defense Fund) – The night before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his prophetic final speech, I’ve Been to the Mountaintop, in Memphis, Tennessee. It was a speech he almost didn’t give. He had returned to Memphis on the morning of April 3, 1968, to continue his support of the city’s striking Black sanitation workers, but as the day went on he was exhausted and running a fever and the weather was stormy.