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**FILE** James Page receives a dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at the Bowie Senior Center in Bowie, Maryland, on April 21, 2021. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)
Posted inMarian Wright Edelman

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Communities Still Suffering from COVID-19

by Marian Wright Edelman May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

Troubling disparities run deep for Black Americans who recovered or who are still struggling to recover from COVID-19 and for Black adults and children who may not even have gotten sick themselves but whose families experienced setbacks and devastating losses.

a man feeding her daughter
Posted inOpinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Tax Day Choices

by Marian Wright Edelman April 26, 2022April 26, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson waves during an April 8 event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington celebrating her confirmation as the first Black female Supreme Court justice, as President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris look on. (Photo by Lauren Victoria Burke)
Posted inOpinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Celebrating a Season of Hope

by Marian Wright Edelman April 20, 2022April 20, 2022
Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted inOpinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: ‘A Morally Inclement Climate’

by Marian Wright Edelman April 13, 2022April 13, 2022
Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, stands with Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and President Joe Biden after Biden signed into law H.R. 55, the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act, in the White House Rose Garden on March 29. (Cheriss May/The Washington Informer)
Posted inOpinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: The Emmett Till Antilynching Act — Remedy at Last

by Marian Wright Edelman April 6, 2022April 6, 2022
Jo Ann Robinson
Posted inOpinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: The Invisible Backbone Leaders of Transforming Social Change

by Marian Wright Edelman March 30, 2022March 30, 2022
Jillian Jackson (Courtesy of spelman.edu)
Posted inOpinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Young Leaders Making a Difference

by Marian Wright Edelman February 16, 2022February 16, 2022
**FILE** Cheryl Hickmon (Courtesy of deltasigmatheta.org)
Posted inOpinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Honoring Delta Sigma Theta President Cheryl Hickmon

by Marian Wright Edelman February 2, 2022February 2, 2022
**FILE** Robert Holland Jr. speaks to students at Wake Forest University's School of Business in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 2010. (Screen shot courtesy of Wake Forest University)
Posted inOpinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Remembering Robert Holland Jr.

by Marian Wright Edelman January 26, 2022January 26, 2022
**FILE** Martin Luther King speaking at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963
Posted inOpinion

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Honoring Dr. King Through the Right to Vote

by Marian Wright Edelman January 19, 2022January 19, 2022

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