“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 [...]
Read MoreI'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 [...]
Read MoreThe 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 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 [...]
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