Tag: opinion
Mullen-Johnson: Showing Support for Those who are Grieving
By Crystal Mullen-Johnson
The process of grief occurs after a death, divorce, job loss, or change one perceives as important to them. Grief is a...
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...
Sharpe-Jefferson: Time to Press Pause, Evaluate and Rejuvenate
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson
I see the pictures flooding my social media timelines and I know you do, too.
Summer is synonymous with many things, vacationing being...
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...
Sharpe-Jefferson: What Are You Willing to Pay for Freedom?
By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson
I recently made a really tough decision. I was offered a position, as in a job, that I really wanted to take.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson: Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act- Again
By The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court just undercut the Voting Rights Act again. Having gutted the section that...
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...
Sharpe-Jefferson: A Sense of Independence on This Year’s July 4th
Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson
Celebrations of freedom for the 4th of July take on a brand-new meaning this year.
Alabama, and America for that matter, continue to open...
Edelman: Cries from the Other America
By Marian Wright Edelman
President Biden last week signed the bill making Juneteenth National Independence Day a federal holiday. Juneteenth, which is observed on June...
Malveaux: Pride Month Means Black Pride, Too
By Julianne Malveaux
June is Pride Month, commemorating the violent police raid on the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, when GLBTQ activists fought abusive...
