REDLINED FOR FAILURE AND THE PRISON PIPELINE
Ndume Olatushani is an artist, organizer, and a passionate advocate for justice who works with the Children’s Defense Fund’s Nashville organizing team. He helps us [...]
Read MoreAMERICA — WHAT DO WE AFTER DO CHARLESTON?
"For in a warm climate, no man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him. This is so true, that of the [...]
Read MoreGROWING SEEDS FOR A MULTICULTURAL, MULTIRACIAL TEACHING FORCE FOR OUR RAINBOW CHILDREN
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me [...]
Read MoreCHARITY IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for [...]
Read MoreEND ALL YOUTH DETENTION AND TORTURE AT RIKER’S ISLAND NOW
“Solitary confinement is pretty horrible for anybody, but it's especially horrible for a child. It is psychological torture.” – Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of [...]
Read MorePROTECTING FIFTY YEARS OF CHILD HEALTH PROGRESS
“It was a generation ago that Harry Truman said, and I quote him: ‘Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of [...]
Read MoreOVERMEDICATING CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE
On any given day nearly one in four children in foster care is taking at least one psychotropic medication—more than four times the rate for [...]
Read MoreHEALING A CHILD’S BROKEN HEART
It’s always very challenging for a parent when their child has a serious health condition. It’s even more challenging when their child has a serious [...]
Read MoreCRIMINALIZING POVERTY
“Held captive.” It was how one 13-year-old described the feeling of growing up poor in our wealthy nation, and for more and more Americans living in [...]
Read MoreALL IN THE FAMILY
“My mother was doing drugs, specifically cocaine, crack cocaine . . . I almost died. They said that I was either going to be deaf [...]
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