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Child Watch: Struggling to Change What Youโ€™re Given

By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Seventeen-year-old Theresa Tran is one of this yearโ€™s winners of the Childrenโ€™s Defense Fund-Ohioโ€™s Beat the Oddsยฎ 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 […]

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