The Inflation Reduction Act: Celebrating, But Continuing the Work
In a week full of headlines, President Biden was celebrating a series of key victories for his priorities in Congress and beyond. One of the [...]
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“We Belong in History”
History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there [...]
Read MoreEncouraging Teachers
“Teaching children may be the highest way to seek God. It is, however, also the most daunting way, in the sense of the greatest responsibility.” [...]
Read More“The Future Has Its Eyes on You”
“The future has its eyes on you.” That was the message children enrolled in Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® summer programs across the country [...]
Read MoreProctor Institute: Providing Sustenance and Hope
When I was a child my father was pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and my mother was director of the youth [...]
Read More“Is It Good for the Children?”
“I have a basic question that I ask related to policy making and leadership, and that basic question is, is it good for the children? [...]
Read MoreThe Fourth of July
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the [...]
Read MoreA Fantastic, Terrific, Great Summer
“Freedom School, how do you feel? “Fantastic! Terrific! GRRRREAT! All! Day! Long!” If you heard a call-and-response chant like this, you might be sitting in [...]
Read MoreCelebrating Juneteenth
For the second year America is proudly celebrating Juneteenth as a federal holiday, marking the jubilant date in 1865 when many enslaved people in Texas [...]
Read MoreTime to Act
“He went there and shot my teacher—and told my teacher good night and shot her in the head. And then he shot some of my [...]
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