“THE ENDURING MISSION OF FREEDOM SCHOOLS”
As a civil rights lawyer in the 1960s, I saw courageous college students organizing Freedom Schools in Mississippi to prepare desperately poor, semi-literate, and disenfranchised [...]
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“AN APPROPRIATE CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL CHILD’S DAY”
In President George W. Bush's May 31st National Child's Day proclamation, he pledged to provide our children "with the care, protection and education they deserve." [...]
Read More“HARD TIMES AND CHILD HEALTH CARE”
Marc Bostic has the look of someone shaped on the football field and by years of practicing martial arts. He's a handsome, well-educated man who [...]
Read More“CHOOSING WHICH CHILDREN LIVE, DIE OR SUFFER”
Health coverage in America shouldn't be like the stock market that dispassionately picks winners and losers. But insufficient funding of government health insurance programs combined [...]
Read More“WANTED: A 2007 CLASS OF HEROES AND SHEROES”
About this time each year, Hollywood releases blockbuster movies featuring superheroes—typically a man in tights and maybe a cape opposing a master villain. Fiction aside, [...]
Read More“KEEPING A CHILD HEALTHY SHOULDN’T BE THIS HARD”
Children get sick occasionally. Parents expect it and always hope they never get anything more than a cold, but they want to be prepared for [...]
Read More“WE MUST FIGHT FOR MENTAL HEALTH CARE TOO”
The Children's Defense Fund is in the midst of a national campaign to convince Congress and the President to enact legislation this year to extend [...]
Read More“WE MUST STEM GUN VIOLENCE”
We must face the hard truth that firearms are so easy to acquire in the United States that lethal mass shootings are mathematically inevitable. Our [...]
Read More“CAUSE OF DEATH: BUREAUCRATIC FAILURE”
For too many of the nine million uninsured children in America, the lack of health coverage can literally mean the difference between life and death. [...]
Read More“A QUESTIONABLE CHILD ARREST”
What goes through a police officer's mind when he's handcuffing a child? That's not a rhetorical question. On March 13th, a police officer arrested seven-year-old [...]
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