Marian Wright Edelman
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Still Riding
For young people today, the fight against segregated buses and train cars might feel like a triumphant victory that is…
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Still Watching for Weasels
As efforts to undermine democracy and suppress voting rights are spreading in state legislatures across our nation, please stay awake…
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Cries from the Other America
The COVID-19 crisis and George Floyd's death were both stark reminders that many Black Americans still live in another America…
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Two Prayers for Children
Oh God, Hear the cries of Your children everywhere.
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Helping Hunger Take a Summer Break
Many children unable to return to school or full-time child care face long hot summer days ahead without enough to…
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Hope for Millions of Children on the Horizon
President Biden said the most important of all might be putting our nation on track to cut child poverty in…
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Remembering Wonderful Mississippi Gov. William Winter
Mississippi's former Gov. William Winter, who died on Dec. 18, 2020, helped transform Mississippi's rigidly segregated public education system.
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Hope for the New Year
We are beginning the new year during very perilous times for children and for our nation and world, but in…
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Words to Live By
In a world where so much is uncertain and confusing, this message is timeless and includes tenets of all the…
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris — Forging a New Path for Our Girls
A ceiling has been lifted for every little girl in America and especially every little girl of color in America.
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