By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Some children cheer when schools close for winter storms, but there are hungry children in America right now for...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist We’re used to making a big fuss over children’s birthdays, but this week child advocates and families across the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Carter G. Woodson, son of former slaves, pioneering Harvard-trained historian, founder of the Association for the Study of African...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite living in the world’s richest economy with a gross domestic product of $15.7 trillion, America’s children,...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Fifty years after President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States is still not a fair...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Children are not little adults. Adolescents are not the same as adults. We’ve known this for years. The research...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist All across the world last month, people joined together to mourn former South African president and freedom fighter Nelson...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In the last few days of the year, most Americans are wrapping up their holiday celebrations and pondering the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist As millions of Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Christmas and their belief that God entered human history as...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home....
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Nine-year-old Jaime Gordillo Villa was born in the United States and is a good student who has gotten awards for...
by Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “I’ll take anyone,” Davion said. “Old or young, dad or mom, black, white, purple. I don’t care. And I would...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “In the 1960s, when my grandfather was teaching me to drive in his little red Ford Falcon, there was an...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist [We found that] if we created the right wraparound programs, the right preschool programs that were strong enough and rigorous...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Doctors told Jaime Gonzalez’s parents that his birth defects were so severe he probably wouldn’t live to age one....
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “There’s something evil in our society that we as Americans have to work to try and eradicate…I would like...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist On September 30, friends and supporters of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) will gather at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C....
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist These are the words of an 18-year-old who recently graduated from high school in a high-poverty neighborhood in the...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “You see a lot of teachers judge and stigmatize their students based on where they come from. A lot of...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “Dear President Obama . . . Guns are really easy to get and people think they need them to protect...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Nearly 2,000 people attended Molly Conley’s funeral last month to mourn the young humanitarian who was the victim of a...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Is your child ready to start school? For parents and children trying hard to enjoy at least a few weeks...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers’ sons, is as important as the killing of White mothers’ sons,...
David Banks, president of the Eagle Academy Foundation based in New York City, N.Y. (Freddie Allen/NNPA News Wire) by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA)...