Tag: Marian Wright Edelman
Edelman: A Shameful Indictment of our Failure to Protect Children
By Marian Wright Edelman
The funerals for the ten Black community members who were murdered while grocery shopping in Buffalo on May 14 aren’t even...
Edelman: Guarantee Permanent Income for Children Living in Poverty
By Marian Wright Edelman
April 18 was Tax Day in the United States, and this year, the day was an especially sad reminder that the...
Edelman: A Different Kind of Climate Crisis
By Marian Wright Edelman
April 4th was the 54th anniversary of the assassination of our nation’s prophet of nonviolence, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On the same...
Edelman: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Breaking Another Barrier
By Marian Wright Edelman
At the White House event where President Biden introduced her as the nominee for the United States Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji...
Edelman: A World Safe for Children in Time of War
By Marian Wright Edelman
“Tell Me Where to Be Born”
People of the world, tell me where to be born.
If I were born in the land...
Edelman: Honoring Sherrilyn Ifill, departing top lawyer for NAACP
By Marian Wright Edelman
Sherrilyn Ifill, the wonderful President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), just announced she will step...
Edelman: Now it’s time to invest in our other infrastructure
By Marian Wright Edelman
This week, President Joe Biden signed legislation a bipartisan infrastructure bill, providing long-awaited vital investments in buildings, roads, bridges, utilities, broadband,...
Edelman: Healthy Food for Hungry Families
By Marian Wright Edelman
“I worry in regards to child obesity…diabetes, cholesterol, and all of those things, but personally I worry more about the children...
Edelman: The Birthplace of America’s Student-Led Civil Rights Revolution
By Marian Wright Edelman
As a teenager, many of Barbara Johns’s wildest fantasies were about a surprising subject: a new school. “My imagination would run...
Edelman: Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass on True Independence
By Marian Wright Edelman
Sojourner Truth was a brilliant and formidable enslaved woman and abolitionist, a great orator, and a powerful presence who possessed unbelievable...
