Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman is the president of the Children's Defense Fund.
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Views Sunday, March 10, 2013 An All-American Crisis “ We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly .” --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 09, 2013 The Courage and Vision of Medgar Evers Read more |
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Views Saturday, January 12, 2013 The Massive Human and Moral Cost of Gun Violence The heartrending massacre of 20 6- and 7-year-old children and six educators in Newtown, Conn., has galvanized public attention once again after a mass shooting. But the killing of children by gun violence is not new. It has been a relentlessly unreported and under-reported plague that has snuffed out the lives of 119,079 children and teenagers since 1979. Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 15, 2012 Dear God! When Will It Stop? The horrendous news from Newtown, Connecticut has pierced our hearts. Allegedly, a black-clad man in his 20s armed with two semi-automatic handguns entered the Sandy Hook Elementary School and made an elementary school for kindergartners through fourth graders the scene of the worst mass shooting in a public school in American history. Reportedly, 20 children were shot and killed, and seven adults were shot and killed. We don’t yet know how many were wounded. We do know dozens of parents are experiencing the worst nightmare any parent could imagine. Read more |
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Views Sunday, September 16, 2012 Ryanomics Assault on Poor and Hungry Children Hungry child, I didn't make this world for you. You didn't buy any stock in my railroad. You didn't invest in my corporation. Where are your shares in standard oil? I made the world for the rich And the will-be-rich And the have-always-been-rich. Not for you, Hungry child. -- Langston Hughes, “God to Hungry Child” Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 11, 2012 The Ryan Budget: Be Careful What You Cut Right before the U.S. House of Representatives left for the summer to go home to campaign for your vote, they voted to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the richest Americans millionaires and billionaires. For more than ten years the richest 1 percent have received $750 billion from these tax cuts. Read more |
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Views Friday, August 03, 2012 The State of America's Children 2012 Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said, “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 08, 2012 Ending the Cradle to Prison Pipeline and Mass Incarceration A black boy born in 2001 has a one in three chance of going to prison in his lifetime and a Latino boy a one in six chance of the same fate. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world: 7.1 million adult residents -- one in 33 -- are under some form of correctional supervision including prison, jail, probation, or parole. Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 24, 2012 No Summer Holiday for Hungry Children Did you know child hunger and food insecurity often peak in the summer? Hunger and poor nutrition are linked to health, mental health, and dental health problems and poor educational outcomes that don’t end when summer starts. Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 24, 2012 It's Past Time to Protect Children Not Guns Thousands of people across the country have poured into the streets -- from New York to Sanford, Florida -- to demand justice for Trayvon Martin. Hundreds of thousands more stepped up to protest online. In response to the public outcry, the Sanford chief of police has temporarily stepped down and the state prosecutor has stepped aside. But nearly one month after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was stopped, stalked, shot and killed while walking home from a convenience store, armed only with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea, his killer, George Zimmerman, has not been arrested. Read more |