Gus Newport
“I’m lucky for what my grandmother instilled in me: Don’t think you know it all, learn something new every day. I learned it by engaging [...]
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Christine King Farris
“I am convinced that, to a certain extent, genealogy and DNA combined to set the arc of my life, and the lives of my two [...]
Read MoreOverturning Opportunity
In the spring of 1954, like so many Black families, mine waited anxiously for the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. My father and I [...]
Read MoreListening Again to Loving
Sixty years ago in June 1963, a young wife and mother drafted a neatly handwritten letter about a “problem” her family was facing: Dear Sir: [...]
Read MoreNobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free
Our nation is about to celebrate its third commemoration of Juneteenth as a federal holiday, marking the jubilant day in June 1865 when many enslaved [...]
Read More“The Mindless Menace of Violence”
The day after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who had announced his decision to run for President, gave a [...]
Read MoreWear Orange
May 29 was Memorial Day in the United States, and the long weekend that is traditionally observed with shared American remembrance made headlines again for [...]
Read More“I See Myself and the Books Give Me Hope”
Amanda Gorman, the eloquent 25-year-old Harvard graduate who was our nation’s first ever National Youth Poet Laureate, recently became one of the latest authors to [...]
Read MoreA Lesson from Ambassador James Joseph
I recently attended a memorial service for my dear friend and former Children’s Defense Fund Board Chair Ambassador James Joseph. Ambassador Joseph was a civil [...]
Read MoreSo Much Work to Do
Mothers. Grandmothers. Women. We have so much work to do. So many mothers and infant lives to save. So many child dreams to realize and [...]
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