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03/13/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The Girl Next Door May Now Be on the Corner"
We rarely see headlines that read: “Prostitute Arrested for Soliciting” because such law enforcement incidents are so commonplace. But behind the thousands of stories about prostitution that don't make their way into the newspapers is the brutal nightmare of child trafficking in America today.... -
03/06/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "A Look at Race, Incarceration, and American Values"
Glenn Loury, a professor in the Department of Economics at Brown University, has long been one of the nation’s most outspoken Black intellectuals. For many years he was a leading conservative voice on topics like affirmative action, and whenever he focuses on a policy issue affecting the Black community, people pay attention... -
02/27/09
Marian Wright Edelman's La Columna Child Watch®: "El creciente problema de la excesiva vigilancia policial en nuestras escuelas"
Imagínese ser un niño de cuatro años y ser esposado porque junto a otro amiguito en la clase preescolar se niegan a tomar la siesta. O tener cinco años, ser esposado, sacado de la escuela en una ambulancia y llevado a la sala psiquiátrica de un hospital por el mero hecho de tener una rabieta en la clase de Kindergarten. -
02/27/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The Growing Problem of Over-Policing Our Schools"
Imagine being four years old and put into handcuffs because you and your friend wouldn’t take a nap in your pre-K class. Or being five years old, handcuffed, and taken away from your school by ambulance to a hospital psychiatric ward after throwing a tantrum in the kindergarten room. These scenarios might sound far-fetched... -
02/20/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "National Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Summit This Week"
"As most children grow up in America, they hear the out-loud dreams and expectations that their parents and other adults have for them: doing well at school, a fulfilling career and a family. Regrettably, those are not the dreams and expectations that many poor Black and Latino children grow up with. For too many of them, childhood means starting school not ready to learn, not reading at grade level, being pushed out or dropping out of school at younger and younger ages, then hanging out on the corner and getting a "street" education. This often leads to getting sucked into the pipeline to prison, which can best be described as a living nightmare..." -
02/20/09
Marian Wright Edelman's La Columna Child Watch®: "Se celebra esta semana la cumbre nacional “De la Cuna a la Cárcel”"
La mayoría de los niños crecen en Estados Unidos escuchando en voz alta lo que sus padres sueñan y esperan para ellos en su futuro: el éxito en la escuela, una carrera satisfactoria y una familia. Lamentablemente, no son los mismos sueños y expectativas con que crecen muchos de los niños negros y latinos pobres. -
02/13/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Economic Crisis Puts Children at Risk"
"In the middle of all the headlines and 24-hour news reports about the economic crisis, one critical story is just beginning to be told. Four days after Christmas, the Washington Post ran this article: "Child Neglect Cases Multiply As Economic Woes Spread." In the article, area child welfare workers talked about the noticeable rise in the number of child abuse and neglect investigations. Many of the new neglect cases were connected to families trying to make do without heat, electricity or necessary medical care, like asthma medications and other basic needs. An emergency room doctor at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, worried about a recent jump in the number of children coming in with bruises, broken bones and burns, and colleagues in other cities told her they'd noticed the same thing." -
02/06/09
National Observance of Children's Sabbaths® Promotional Packet
Promotional resources for the National Observance of Children's Sabbaths weekend. Includes a description of the Children's Sabbaths, frequently asked questions, 10 examples of how faith communities have celebrated in previous years, a promotional flyer, and an order form for volume 18 of the Children's Sabbaths manual. -
02/06/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The Cradle to Prison Pipeline: America’s New Apartheid"
"Incarceration is becoming the new American apartheid and poor children of color are the fodder. It is time to sound a loud alarm about this threat to American unity and community, act to stop the growing criminalization of children at younger and younger ages, and tackle the unjust treatment of minority youths and adults in the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems with urgency and persistence...." -
01/30/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Black History American History"
"A century ago, a two-day race riot in Springfield, Illinois, where White mobs lynched two Blacks, turned out to be the final straw for a small interracial group of Americans committed to social justice. Lynchings and other acts of terror against Blacks at the height of the Post-Reconstruction Jim Crow era had become all too common. But after the White mob violence instigated by some of the 'best citizens' in President Abraham Lincoln's hometown, this group decided to act..."
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