A New Year for Children
As we begin the New Year, every new headline reminds us that these are very tumultuous times. I start this season redoubling my determination to focus all [...]
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Prayers for the Holy Season
All during the Christmas season, as millions celebrate a poor, homeless child Christians call Savior, I think about the irony of some political leaders proposing [...]
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Shall We Say Grace?
When I was a child, my father kept an editorial cartoon pinned up in the vestibule of our church that made a deep impression on [...]
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Succeeding Against the Odds
After two years of divisive, hateful rhetoric from the highest levels of government, the profoundly inhumane treatment of immigrant families, and the placing of corporate [...]
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The Test of Our Progress
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough [...]
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California’s Chance to Lead for Poor Children
When I was a young civil rights lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Mississippi, I was called in 1967 to testify before Congress [...]
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Help Us Keep Dr. King’s Promise
In a few weeks . . . we are coming to Washington in a Poor People’s Campaign. Yes, we are going to bring the tired, [...]
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Child Opportunity and Stability Starts at Home
Fifty years ago this week the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, became law after passing Congress in the [...]
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Remembering Dr. King
I first heard Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speak in person on April 19, 1960 at Spelman College’s Sisters Chapel during my senior year in [...]
Read MoreA 50 Year Plea Persists
“In 1968, the Kerner Commission concluded that America was heading toward ‘two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.’ Today, America’s communities are experiencing increasing [...]
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