Tag: Marian Wright Edelman

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...