“NATIONAL CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH”
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month—a good time for us to look at the child abuse and neglect crisis in America. The statistics are shocking: [...]
Read MoreApril is National Child Abuse Prevention Month—a good time for us to look at the child abuse and neglect crisis in America. The statistics are shocking: [...]
Read MoreIt's plain that our nation's health insurance system is broken: 46 million people in America lack health coverage—nine million of them children—and the number of [...]
Read MoreOn March 25, beloved historian John Hope Franklin, the nation's leading scholar of Black history, passed away at age 94. Dr. Franklin became a scholar of [...]
Read MoreMabel Pichardo is a self-employed mother of two young children from New York City. She earned approximately $31,000 last year making ends meet through three [...]
Read MoreTo the horror of us all, Deamonte Driver, a seventh grader from Prince George's County, Maryland, died of complications from an abscessed tooth on February [...]
Read MoreWe rarely see headlines that read: "Prostitute Arrested for Soliciting" because such law enforcement incidents are so commonplace. But behind the thousands of stories about [...]
Read MoreGlenn Loury, a professor in the Department of Economics at Brown University, has long been one of the nation's most outspoken Black intellectuals. For many [...]
Read MoreImagine being four years old and put into handcuffs because you and your friend wouldn't take a nap in your pre-K class. Or being five [...]
Read MoreAs most children grow up in America, they hear the out-loud dreams and expectations that their parents and other adults have for them: doing well [...]
Read MoreIn the middle of all the headlines and 24-hour news reports about the economic crisis, one critical story is just beginning to be told. Four [...]
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