‘Those girls—they didn’t live their lives because of the color of our skin.’
Marian Wright Edelman
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Prayers for our children
The teachers and school administrators who are beginning a new school year right now are always on the front lines advocating for and alongside our children.
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Passing of a racial justice champion: Charles Ogletree
‘It’s one thing to talk about trying to change the way we look at children. It’s another thing to give it some teeth so that it makes a big difference.’
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Children are supposed to enjoy their lives
‘Through loss you can still love, and that’s what we want to continue to do, to represent the love that we have for our children, and the love that we have for other people’s children.’
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Youth aren’t bulletproof
‘Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in the United States.’
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Overturning opportunity
‘If the colleges of this country are required to ignore a thing that matters, it will not just go away. It will take longer for racism to leave us. And, ultimately, ignoring race just makes it matter more.’
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Nobody’s free until everybody’s free
‘We don’t want people to think that Juneteenth is a stopping point, because it isn’t. It’s a beginning.’
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Wear Orange: Support ending gun violence
We must never tire of the really hard work demanded to transform the pervasive culture of violence and pervasive presence of guns in America.
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The passing of a social justice warrior
‘Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. They are civilization’s radical voice.’
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It’s always the guns
On April 15 there were seven mass shootings, the most in a single day so far this year.Â
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Beyond thoughts and prayers
Why does our nation continue to allow weapons of war that have no business in civilian hands to be manufactured, marketed, and mass distributed as fun-to-shoot, convenient ways of killing our children?
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Women’s rights are under renewed attack
Women constitute half the world’s population, but still have not realized half of the world’s potential, received half of the world’s resources, or exercised half of the world’s power.Â
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There are no safe places in the US
Will we continue to stand alone in accepting our pervasive culture of gun violence and the insane proliferation of guns?
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The Little Rock Nine anniversary: ‘silence is not an option’
Our nation continues to owe a debt of gratitude to the Little Rock Nine and to all those who were just children and teenagers when they became frontline soldiers in the war to end Jim Crow in American life.
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​The Inflation Reduction Act: celebrating, but continuing the work
‘I implore Congress to address the financial burden children and families in our country are facing and to bring back the monthly Child Tax Credit payments that helped to eliminate this.’
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Devastated victims of Uvalde massacre beg Congress to act
He went there and shot my teacher—and told my teacher good night and shot her in the head. And then he shot some of my classmates… I thought he was going to come back to the room, so I grabbed the blood and put it all over me.” This was from the devastating video testimony […]