“ORATORY AND BASEBALL ARE STRONG DIVERSIONS FROM THE PRISON PIPELINE”
This is one of a series of Child Watch® Columns on dismantling America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline. Young people get on the prison track for [...]
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“CHILDHOOD OBESITY — A GROWING EPIDEMIC”
Children around the world face life-threatening nutrition problems. The international child relief organization, Save the Children, says that each year, chronic long-term malnutrition contributes to [...]
Read More“DR. ASA HILLIARD — SCHOLAR LIBERATOR”
We lost a giant in August when educator, psychologist and historian Asa G. Hilliard III died while leading a study tour in Egypt. Asa Hilliard [...]
Read More“A CALL TO ACTION TO DISMANTLE THE CRADLE TO PRISON PIPELINE”
The Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution as a roadmap to, as the Preamble says, "establish justice," "promote the general welfare" and "secure the Blessings of [...]
Read More“PRESIDENT BUSH’S NEW HEALTH RULES ARE WRONG FOR CHILDREN”
Late on a Friday afternoon in the middle of the August congressional recess, after the House and Senate passed legislation reauthorizing and extending the State [...]
Read More“WE WILL NOT BE SILENT ABOUT THE JENA SIX”
I'm writing to urge all of my readers to take action and demand justice for the African American youths known as "the Jena Six." These [...]
Read More“FREE THE JENA SIX”
The recent conviction of Black high school student Mychal Bell in the small rural town of Jena, Louisiana, demonstrates why the struggle for civil rights [...]
Read More“OLIVER W. HILL — IN MEMORIAM”
In the 1940s and 50s, a very small but very committed band of highly trained NAACP lawyers launched a war in the nation's courts to [...]
Read More“KATRINA — TWO YEARS IN THE LIFE OF A CHILD”
Two years ago, on August 29, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi, displacing hundreds of thousands. Black communities that had been [...]
Read More“CONGRESS–PASS THE SCHIP BILL AND SAVE CHILDREN’S LIVES”
The Children's Defense Fund's top policy goal in 2007 has been comprehensive health coverage for all 9 million uninsured children and pregnant women in America. [...]
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