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Educating Black Boys Takes Everything We're Not Doing
Critical supports in childhood help mold young black boys into successful men, Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund, argues at the Huffington Post. She says families, schools, churches, communities and government agencies need to do more to help them achieve greater academic success. “You don’t have to be a Black male educator…
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Is Violence in America a Public Health Crisis?
Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman suggests in a piece at the Huffington Post that we look at violence in America as a public health crisis rather than a crime problem in light of the spate of recent mass shootings. … What if we look for promising practices and expanded the ones that work…
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Why We Can Never Give Up on Gun Control
With new gun control legislation derailed, Marian Wright Edelman writes at the Huffington Post why Americans must stay focused on changing the status quo. The fight to protect children, not guns is not over because: Ninety percent of Americans want a universal background check. This includes 94 percent of North Dakota voters, 89 percent of…
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On Gun Violence, Listen to the Children
Writing at the Huffington Post, Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman makes the case that it’s time to protect kids, not weapons. My friends are dead. I saw the bad man. He was next to me when we ran out.” “I played ball with him. Now he is dead.” “My friend got killed cause…
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Trayvon Martin: Gun Violence One Year Later
As we near the one-year anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death on Feb. 26, Children’s Defense Fund president Marian Wright Edelman echoes Harry Belafonte’s recent call for action on the Huffington Post, discussing the number of gun deaths in the black community. Shortly after President Kennedy’s assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote that it was…
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How the US Can Help Impoverished Kids
As Americans face unemployment and underemployment, more and more children live in poverty. According to Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman, writing at the Huffington Post, 16.4 million American children are poor, and 7.4 million are existing in extreme poverty. Edelman calls for a fight against this situation with a change that begins locally…
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Hate Crime Numbers Rise in US
As 2012 trudges on, so do the numbers of hate crimes and possible hate crimes committed in the United States, argues Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman in the Huffington Post. Quoting strong statistics from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Edelman urges those who witness racism and violence against people because of the color…
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Why We Can't Boycott Geneva
Despite the historic election of President Barack Obama, racism is alive and well. But it’s not just a U.S. problem. Racial discrimination may be the scourge of our time, and if there is any government that ought to understand that, it’s ours. Yet, the Obama administration is debating whether to participate in a United Nations…
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Honoring King is Not Enough
The day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot, I went out into the riot-torn Washington, D.C. streets and into schools in those neighborhoods scorched by flames to talk to the children. I went to tell them not to loot and raid, so that they would not get arrested and ruin their futures. A…
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