“WE WILL NOT BE SILENT ABOUT THE JENA SIX”
I'm writing to urge all of my readers to take action and demand justice for the African American youths known as "the Jena Six." These [...]
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“FREE THE JENA SIX”
The recent conviction of Black high school student Mychal Bell in the small rural town of Jena, Louisiana, demonstrates why the struggle for civil rights [...]
Read More“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 More“KATRINA — TWO YEARS IN THE LIFE OF A CHILD”
Two 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 More“CONGRESS–PASS THE SCHIP BILL AND SAVE CHILDREN’S LIVES”
The 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 More“WE NEED MORE FACE TIME WITH OUR CHILDREN”
I 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 More“EMPOWERING MOTHERS AROUND THE WORLD”
A 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 More“VOTING RIGHTS AND JUNE JOHNSON”
On 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 More“MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR PATRICK’S FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE PLAN PROMISES A WAY UP”
This 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 More“THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S WRONG TURN ON RACIAL EQUALITY”
The 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 [...]
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