“OLIVER W. HILL — IN MEMORIAM”
In the 1940s and 50s, a very small but very committed band of highly trained NAACP lawyers launched a war in the nation's courts to [...]
Read MoreIn the 1940s and 50s, a very small but very committed band of highly trained NAACP lawyers launched a war in the nation's courts to [...]
Read MoreTwo years ago, on August 29, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, displacing hundreds of thousands. Black communities that had been [...]
Read MoreThe Children's Defense Fund's top policy goal in 2007 has been comprehensive health coverage for all 9 million uninsured children and pregnant women in America. [...]
Read MoreI often write in this space about a national or global challenge confronting our children and recommend how readers might support a policy or initiative [...]
Read MoreA family lives in a small village by a river—a mother, two girls and a boy. The water isn't clean, but the children play in [...]
Read MoreOn August 6, we observe the anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This landmark legislation struck down a range of [...]
Read MoreThis June, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced a visionary initiative to expand public education to include two years of free community college for every high [...]
Read MoreThe July 28th U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down voluntary school integration plans in Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, will erode gains in racial [...]
Read MoreWith 9 million children in America lacking health insurance and reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) pending in Congress before it expires [...]
Read MoreI am not in the habit of doing movie reviews but I recommend everyone see Michael Moore's documentary "SiCKO" about our health care system which [...]
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