Sign up to stay connected Get the top stories of the day around the DMV. Earth Day and the month of April are commemorated across the world as a time to celebrate our planet and focus on action to protect it. During this month I often remember the poem “ …

Sign up to stay connected Get the top stories of the day around the DMV. On April 2, 109-year-olds Viola Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle appeared together at a Tulsa courthouse in a hearing before Oklahoma’s Supreme Court. Mother Fletcher and …

… the docufilm, Spare The Child at the Marian Wright Edelman Public Library on April … who were disciplined corporately as children and were pretty much traumatized … what’s wrong with our kids now, we can’t beat …

Sign up to stay connected Get the top stories of the day around the DMV. Every year, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the organization established in 1915 by “the Founder of Black History” Dr. Carter G. Woodson, …

Sign up to stay connected Get the top stories of the day around the DMV. Late last month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan tax package that included elements of the historic 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion. The new Tax Relief for …

Sign up to stay connected Get the top stories of the day around the DMV. I heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak for the first time when he gave the Founders’ Day address in Spelman College’s Sisters Chapel during my senior year of college. His subject …

Sign up to stay connected Get the top stories of the day around the DMV. “It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be …

Sign up to stay connected Get the top stories of the day around the DMV. I’ve shared before the description of an editorial cartoon my father kept pinned up in the vestibule of our church that made a deep impression on me I have never forgotten. It was a …

… Marian Wright Edelman once said, “If we don’t stand up for children … as similar occurrences of child sexual abuse become hashtags … , accurate data on children engaged in labour, in­cl­uding … “Nobody cares about children because children don’t vote. …

Sign up to stay connected Get the top stories of the day around the DMV. Fifty years after Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) was founded, some of CDF’s marks of impact go all the way back to the beginning — including CDF’s first report, “Children Out of School …