ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB
President Obama’s historic visit to Hiroshima this week offers an opportunity to take a clear-eyed look back to the first and only time nuclear weapons [...]
Read MoreBUILDING STRONG CHILDREN TODAY FOR A STRONG NATION TOMORROW
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” --Frederick Douglass Pediatricians aren’t usually day-to-day policy makers but policy decisions affect the [...]
Read MoreSTORIES OF MOTHER LOVE
“They didn’t want me to have Walter because of my age. But I finally convinced them that age has nothing to do with love…What I [...]
Read MoreHOPE IS WAITING FOR THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
“Baldo came to the United States from Michoacán, Mexico, in 1988, when he was 17 years old. He lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife [...]
Read MoreRECOGNIZING ALL OF AMERICA’S S/HEROES
Every day I wear a pair of medallions around my neck with portraits of two of my role models: Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. As [...]
Read MoreEND CHILD SUMMER HUNGER NOW!
Spring is almost in full swing and summer is just around the corner. Millions of children in America can’t wait for summer vacation, but for [...]
Read MoreINCOME INEQUALITY: THE HOUSING STRUGGLE
“I was in Newark and Harlem just this week. And I walked into the homes of welfare mothers. I saw them in conditions—no, not with [...]
Read MoreTHE TIME IS ALWAYS RIGHT TO DO RIGHT
March 31 is the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last Sunday sermon at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. in 1968 before his [...]
Read MoreTHE MOMENT WE HAVE WAITED FOR
Rev. C.T. Vivian, legendary civil rights leader, believes young people today are inheriting the world at a unique crossroads in history and that “this is [...]
Read MoreAMERICA, I AM YOU
“I am an insider serving a life and 20 year sentence at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. Twenty-six years ago I was rendered infamous by the [...]
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