“STRONG PROGRAMS, STRONG MENTORS, AND STRONG MINDSETS”
We know the commonly repeated claim that there are more Black men in prison than in college isn’t true—but in 2011 Black men accounted for fewer than [...]
Read More“CHILDREN IN THE DESERT”
By Marian Wright Edelman Bishop Minerva Carcaño, the Los Angeles Area Resident Bishop of the United Methodist Church, is acting with urgency. Along with more [...]
Read More“KIWIS IN THE BRONX”
By Marian Wright Edelman For years the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx in New York, home to St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, was the poorest [...]
Read More“A MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM SUMMER PILGRIMAGE: AN ATROCITY WE MUST NEVER FORGET”
By Marian Wright Edelman and Julia Cass The site in the photograph below, along a back road near Philadelphia, Mississippi, was the final stop on [...]
Read More“ANDREW YOUNG’S CHOICE”
“None of us had any real education in social change. I was a biology major and a preacher. And yet we found ourselves in positions [...]
Read More“OVERCOMING EVIL”
Nelba Márquez-Greene is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has spent her life helping others. In December 2012 she was the coordinator of a [...]
Read More“BREAKING THE CODE OF SILENCE”
“I found my voice long before I became a writer in community organizing. That’s where I found my voice, where I was able to take [...]
Read More“WE, THE PEOPLE”
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, [...]
Read More“INSPIRING LESSONS FROM SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY”
On June 14th I had the honor of giving the undergraduate commencement address at Seattle Pacific University. Commencement speakers usually do their best to share [...]
Read More“RETURN OF THE WEASELS”
This column is not about the recent story making headlines in New York City on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal to lift a ban on [...]
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