Thank You, MaryLee Allen
MaryLee Allen was a brilliant, passionate, persevering, caring servant leader—not a self-serving leader—committed to helping build a world fit for children. When the Children’s [...]
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Immigrant Children Are Still Children
The Trump administration’s cruel treatment of children and families at the border has not stopped. Children continue to die in the custody of U.S. [...]
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Much More than Summer School
Close your eyes and think about the words summer school. What comes to mind? If you picture a room full of children clapping, cheering, [...]
Read MoreA Summer to Remember
As the school year ends and families look ahead to summer plans, I hope many will be able to consider travel that is not [...]
Read MoreRemembering Unita Blackwell
I was deeply sorry to hear of the passing of my friend Mayor Unita Blackwell. She was one of a kind. She was always [...]
Read MoreStaying Vigilant on Brown
As a teenager, many of Barbara Johns’ wildest dreams were about a surprising subject: a new school. “My imagination would run rampant—and I would [...]
Read More“You Can’t Win Like That”
“I can’t do a lot of the extra stuff that I would like to do for my kids or with my kids because I [...]
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Ending Child Poverty Now
“I would come home and there would be no electricity, I would have no water to bathe in. Sometimes there wouldn't be food, there [...]
Read MoreOut of Sight, Out of Mind
Baby dolls, tiny trucks, toy food and dress-up capes. Scattered about the ballroom of a motel in Northeast Washington, D.C., and captured in a [...]
Read MorePrayers for a Season of Renewal
We are living through trying times as a nation when many are longing for justice. Sometimes it seems, in the words of poet James Russell [...]
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