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Posts tagged with "Marian Wright Edelman"
Where are our leaders? What are our core values?
Mar. 27 | By Marian Wright Edelman Guest Commentator It will not be sufficient for Morehouse College — for any college, for that matter — to produce clever graduates, men fluent in speech and able to argue their way through; but rather...
‘Fierce urgency’ stressed at MLK Breakfast
Jan. 23 | Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, told nearly 2,000 people attending the 23rd annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Breakfast January 21, “We need to wake up.” Specifically, she urged the sold-out...
New Year resolutions: Protect children from violence, poverty
Jan. 9 | By Marian Wright Edelman Guest Commentator As New Year’s Eve countdowns wound down, many people turned to the familiar ritual of taking stock of where they are now to make resolutions for what they can do better in the new...
Speaking up for and demanding full-day kindergarten
Dec. 5 | By Marian Wright Edelman Guest Commentator About four million American children celebrated a very big milestone this fall: their first day of kindergarten. Far too many were already a step or more behind their peers. If we want all of...
Power is in your person
Oct. 17 | By Marian Wright Edelman Guest Commentator “You know, when we started the farm workers movement, I remember going to many conferences, and people [kept asking] how do we do this?… We had to convince people that they have power. “Of...
Hate-filled ‘Patriot’ groups still on the rise
Jun. 20 | By Marian Wright Edelman Guest Commentator The growth in hate groups and the use of their divisive and negative language in the mainstream political and media arena is cause for national alarm. Already this year several horrendous...
