“IMPORTANT FREE HELP AT TAX TIME”
Mabel Pichardo is a self-employed mother of two young children from New York City. She earned approximately $31,000 last year making ends meet through three [...]
Read More“DENTISTS REMEMBER AND RESPOND TO A CHILD’S PREVENTABLE DEATH”
To the horror of us all, Deamonte Driver, a seventh grader from Prince George's County, Maryland, died of complications from an abscessed tooth on February [...]
Read More“THE GIRL NEXT DOOR MAY NOW BE ON THE CORNER”
We rarely see headlines that read: "Prostitute Arrested for Soliciting" because such law enforcement incidents are so commonplace. But behind the thousands of stories about [...]
Read More“A LOOK AT RACE, INCARCERATION, AND AMERICAN VALUES”
Glenn Loury, a professor in the Department of Economics at Brown University, has long been one of the nation's most outspoken Black intellectuals. For many [...]
Read More“NATIONAL CRADLE TO PRISON PIPELINE® SUMMIT THIS WEEK”
As most children grow up in America, they hear the out-loud dreams and expectations that their parents and other adults have for them: doing well [...]
Read More“ECONOMIC CRISIS PUTS CHILDREN AT RISK”
In the middle of all the headlines and 24-hour news reports about the economic crisis, one critical story is just beginning to be told. Four [...]
Read More“THE CRADLE TO PRISON PIPELINE: AMERICA’S NEW APARTHEID”
Incarceration is becoming the new American apartheid and poor children of color are the fodder. It is time to sound a loud alarm about this [...]
Read More“BLACK HISTORY AMERICAN HISTORY”
A century ago, a two-day race riot in Springfield, Illinois, where White mobs lynched two Blacks, turned out to be the final straw for a [...]
Read More“NOW IS THE TIME TO BAIL OUR POOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OUT OF POVERTY”
As the current recession has turned into what may be the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, we all witnessed televised [...]
Read More“INAUGURATION DAY: CONTINUING THE DREAM”
"Rosa sat so Martin could march. Martin marched so Barack could run. Barack runs so our children can fly!" From text messages to t-shirts, versions [...]
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