“THE STATE OF AMERICA’S CHILDREN 2012”
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands [...]
Read More“CRITICAL INVESTMENT ADVICE FROM FED CHAIRMAN BEN BERNANKE”
On July 24th, Dr. Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, gave a video keynote speech to 3,200 community and youth [...]
Read More“THE POLITICS OF POWER AND THE PRECIOUS RIGHT TO VOTE”
“The first fact that we need to understand is that America has a longer history of disenfranchisement than it does of enfranchisement. What do I [...]
Read More“ENDING THE CRADLE TO PRISON PIPELINE AND MASS INCARCERATION—THE NEW AMERICAN JIM CROW”
A Black boy born in 2001 has a one in three chance of going to prison in his lifetime and a Latino boy a one [...]
Read More“SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING”
On June 25th, the U.S. Supreme Court in Miller v. Alabama banned mandatory sentences of life in prison without parole for juveniles. This is a major victory [...]
Read More“SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY: A LOUD WAKE UP CALL”
I had the recent privilege of attending the annual dinner of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights honoring Congressman Barney Frank and National [...]
Read More“DETOURS AND DANGER WARNINGS ON THE ROAD FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM”
On June 16th, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio is hosting a Juneteenth celebration commemorating the jubilant day in 1865 when the [...]
Read More“TOLERANCE OF POVERTY”
The latest edition of UNICEF's report on child poverty showed the United States ranks second out of 35 developed countries on the scale of what [...]
Read More“FREEDOM SUMMER”
When Kyla was in the third grade, she failed the state-required end-of-grade tests at her Charlotte, North Carolina elementary school. Her grandmother was worried that [...]
Read More“TIME TO STOP ‘STOP AND FRISK”
This Father's Day, June 17th, the Children's Defense Fund-New York and I will be joining George Gresham, President of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East [...]
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