“REMEMBERING DR. BENJAMIN E. MAYS’S LEGACY”
"It started here in a log cabin and a cotton patch. If it hadn't been for Benjamin Mays, there probably wouldn't have been a Martin [...]
Read More“RACE TO THE TOP-EARLY LEARNING CHALLENGE”
On May 25th, the Obama Administration announced a new Race to the Top challenge fund to identify and reward best practices in education—$500 million of [...]
Read More“FIGHTING CUTS TO CHILD CARE”
New York City parent Yvonne works as a home care attendant to help support her three-year-old son Darnell. While Yvonne is working, Darnell is enrolled [...]
Read More“VOTING RIGHTS UNDER ATTACK”
At the signing of the historic Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965 striking down the discriminatory practices many states had put in place to [...]
Read More“FREEDOM RIDERS – A LIVING LEGACY”
"Boarding that Greyhound bus to travel through the heart of the Deep South, I felt good. I felt happy. I felt liberated. I was like [...]
Read More“JUDGE PATRICIA MARTIN: FAMILY MATTERS”
The Honorable Patricia Martin, who serves as the Presiding Judge of the Child Protection Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, is the [...]
Read More“DR. DAVID FRENCH: PIONEERING PHYSICIAN”
"This was a man who lived a life of urgency, but never an urgency in the service of self, but rather in the service of [...]
Read More“FROM HEAD START TO HARVARD”
The colors were brighter than any she had seen before. Shapes, letters, and lots and lots of colors adorned the walls; around the room, [...]
Read More“CHILDREN’S HEALTH ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK”
Like many parents, California mother Anne-Marie Skinner knows "accidents happen." Her active, athletic teenagers Constance and Lucas are both involved in a number of extracurricular [...]
Read More“CELEBRATING AND PROTECTING HEALTH REFORM FOR CHILDREN”
A year ago President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the "Affordable Care Act"), guaranteeing access to health coverage for [...]
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