Tag Archives: Marian Wright Edelman

Discouraging News on Child Poverty

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From the Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org):   By Marian Wright Edelman   Thirteen-year-old Brittanie Potter and her 12-year-old sister Sydney held a bake sale and garage sale at their Marion, Ohio home this summer with a simple goal in mind: … Continue reading →

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Kids Count: Tallying the High Costs of the Economy for Children

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From the Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org):   By Marian Wright Edelman    “I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and … Continue reading →

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Getting Children Ready for School—Dr. King and the Dream

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From the Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org):   By Marian Wright Edelman   As our nation pauses to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with the dedication of a new memorial on the anniversary of the historic 1963 March on Washington … Continue reading →

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Poor Children: Stranded at Sea

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Sandy Strauss

From the Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org):   By Marian Wright Edelman   As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Cass prepared the recent Children’s Defense Fund’s report “Held Captive”: Child Poverty in America, she traveled to the Mississippi Delta, the ravaged cities … Continue reading →

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In Memoriam: Dr. Dorothy Height—Extraordinary Leader, Lantern, and Role Model

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Sandy Strauss

From the Children’s Defense Fund (http://www.childrensdefense.org):   By Marian Wright Edelman   “We African American Women seldom do just what we want to do, but always what we have to do. I am grateful to have been in a time … Continue reading →

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