“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: [...]
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“A PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN CAN COVER ALL OF OUR CHILDREN”
It'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 More“DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN—SCHOLAR, TEACHER, ACTIVIST, FRIEND”
On 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 More“IMPORTANT FREE HELP AT TAX TIME”
Mabel 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 More“DENTISTS REMEMBER AND RESPOND TO A CHILD’S PREVENTABLE DEATH”
To 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 More“THE GIRL NEXT DOOR MAY NOW BE ON THE CORNER”
We 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 More“A LOOK AT RACE, INCARCERATION, AND AMERICAN VALUES”
Glenn 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 More“THE GROWING PROBLEM OF OVER-POLICING OUR SCHOOLS”
Imagine 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 More“NATIONAL CRADLE TO PRISON PIPELINE® SUMMIT THIS WEEK”
As 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 More“ECONOMIC CRISIS PUTS CHILDREN AT RISK”
In 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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