“YOUNG, BLACK, AND LOCKED UP”
This is one of a series of Child Watch® Columns on America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Crisis. If you were asked where the United States [...]
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“A LITANY OF THANKSGIVING”
In this season of Thanksgiving, I wish you wealth in the things of true value — family, friends, health and peace of mind and spirit. [...]
Read More“COURAGE TO BEAT THE ODDS”
Imagine being alone on a battlefield facing new enemies each and every day. There are few visible avenues of retreat or escape and few resources [...]
Read More“FROM SCHOOL YARD TO PRISON YARD”
This is one of a series of Child Watch® Columns on America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Crisis. In a number of America's upper-income communities, parents [...]
Read More“FIGHTING THE CULTURE BATTLE FOR OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE”
This is one of a series of Child Watch® Columns on America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Crisis. Compared to today, many of the messages that [...]
Read More“ORATORY AND BASEBALL ARE STRONG DIVERSIONS FROM THE PRISON PIPELINE”
This is one of a series of Child Watch® Columns on dismantling America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline. Young people get on the prison track for [...]
Read More“CHILDHOOD OBESITY — A GROWING EPIDEMIC”
Children around the world face life-threatening nutrition problems. The international child relief organization, Save the Children, says that each year, chronic long-term malnutrition contributes to [...]
Read More“DR. ASA HILLIARD — SCHOLAR LIBERATOR”
We lost a giant in August when educator, psychologist and historian Asa G. Hilliard III died while leading a study tour in Egypt. Asa Hilliard [...]
Read More“A CALL TO ACTION TO DISMANTLE THE CRADLE TO PRISON PIPELINE”
The Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution as a roadmap to, as the Preamble says, "establish justice," "promote the general welfare" and "secure the Blessings of [...]
Read More“PRESIDENT BUSH’S NEW HEALTH RULES ARE WRONG FOR CHILDREN”
Late on a Friday afternoon in the middle of the August congressional recess, after the House and Senate passed legislation reauthorizing and extending the State [...]
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