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Nick Kotz: Great Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist with a Passion for Justice and a Much Beloved Friend

I am deeply grateful for the extraordinary life and brilliant reporting of Nick Kotz who died in a tragic accident at the beautiful Virginia farm [...]

Beloved Friend and Great Civil Rights Servant Leader John Lewis

During Easter weekend in 1960 I took my first airplane ride, from Atlanta, Georgia (where I was a senior at Spelman College) to Raleigh, North [...]

Please Welcome Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson as CDF’s New President!

As America is immersed in a new movement demanding an end to racial and economic injustice, the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) announced the appointment of [...]

Where Do We Go From Here?

In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the [...]

So Much Work to Do

As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment this week, I offer these words for all of us who are still fighting to [...]

Prayers For Us All in These Challenging Times

I share below two wonderful prayers by my dear friend Rev. Frederick J. “Jerry” Streets, Senior Pastor of Dixwell Congregational Church in New Haven and [...]

Persevere

The last few months have been a very difficult time for so many of us. I repeat here this “Request for Transfer” by an unknown author [...]

The Final Words of Our Hero, John Lewis

I will soon share a column dedicated to our great national servant leader and my much beloved friend for 50 years, Congressman John Lewis. He [...]

Lessons from Geese: Standing By Each Other in Difficult Times

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we human beings had as much sense of community as geese? During an Outward Bound experience in Maine, participants read [...]

Protecting Children During Pandemic Times

On July 21 and 22, people of faith from across our nation will gather for a virtual CDF Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child [...]

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By Marian Wright Edelman

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