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“RESCUING THE AMERICAN DREAM”
In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke about his grandparents, who were part of the World War II “generation of heroes” who [...]
Read MoreIn his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke about his grandparents, who were part of the World War II “generation of heroes” who [...]
Read MoreAlabama has passed the toughest immigration enforcement law in the country. Now children born in the U.S.A., American citizens, are living in fear. Some children [...]
Read More“In all my courses, I really have to teach the basic messages of my life… that the rewards, the satisfactions, are not in being partner [...]
Read More“There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we now have the resources to get rid of it. Not too many [...]
Read MoreAs the new year’s news cycles turn to presidential politics and primary contests, there is another story our leaders should be talking a lot about—and [...]
Read More“That Fred Shuttlesworth did not become a martyr was not for lack of trying… There was not a person in the civil rights movement who [...]
Read MoreWhen Britany Lewis was born, no trumpets and glad tidings or even balloons and baby showers greeted her arrival. She was just another poor baby. [...]
Read MoreGod help us to end poverty in our time. The poverty of having a child with too little to eat and no place to sleep, [...]
Read MoreWould you recognize a poor child when you saw one? Nine-year-old Carolyn Latimore and her sister Aalijah, eight, are beautiful little girls with big smiles [...]
Read MoreAs a teenager, many of Barbara Johns’s wildest fantasies were about a surprising subject: a new school. “My imagination would run rampant—and I would dream [...]
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