Posted inColumnists, Marian Wright Edelman, Op-Ed, Opinion

Child Watch: Struggling to Change What You’re Given

By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Seventeen-year-old Theresa Tran is one of this year’s winners of the Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio’s Beat the Odds® scholarships after overcoming tough odds including physical disability, the death of a beloved sibling, and a father who suddenly abandoned the family and left her mother to raise four children alone. Theresa says […]

Sign up for newsletters

Get the best of The Washington Informer directly in your email inbox.

Sending to:

Gift this article