A Prayer to End Child Poverty in Our Time
We know what to do to end child poverty if we want to in rich America. The U.S. Census Bureau reported this week that the [...]
Read MoreWe know what to do to end child poverty if we want to in rich America. The U.S. Census Bureau reported this week that the [...]
Read More“In this dark day of discontent So many feel despair As poverty and dissidence Cause sadness everywhere.” On May 11, 1997 Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) [...]
Read MoreAs a new school year begins I want to share prayers for our children, all of them, and for caring adults to be God’s hands and feet [...]
Read MoreI recently had the privilege of meeting five outstanding high school students the Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio’s Beat the Odds® program was honoring for overcoming tremendous adversity, [...]
Read More“I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. [...]
Read MoreHave you ever had the chance to make a small difference in helping change someone’s life for the better? Nothing brings greater joy. Since 1990 [...]
Read MoreBelow is a prayer for child advocates. Teachers and school administrators are always on the front lines advocating for children so maybe one of them [...]
Read More“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 MoreWhat a week it’s been. It’s hard to conceive that despite opposition from hundreds of organizations including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of [...]
Read MoreI learned my first lessons about injustice and health as a little Black girl growing up in segregated Bennettsville, South Carolina. I remember my parents’ [...]
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