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03/30/18
In the spring of 1960, I was a senior at Spelman College in Atlanta and decided to help organize the civil rights student sit-in movement to desegregate lunch counters. I went to Atlanta’s City Hall to engage in our cause to end racial apartheid. I felt overwhelming gratitude for the chance to be...
Marian Wright Edelman's picture
03/30/18
Not even one month has passed since Academy Awards were handed out for films like "Get Out" (Best Original Screenplay), "A Fantasic Woman" (Best Foreign Film), and "The Silent Child" (Best Live-Action Short). Each one of these films, and many of the other nominees, are showing Hollywood that...
Justine Hebron's picture
03/29/18
I met Charlie and Rebecca Wood of Virginia recently. We were able to help them create a short video to explain how important Medicaid is to Charlie and her family. I wrote about some amazing families like the Woods last summer and our colleague Marta Conner wrote about her daughter and the...
Say Ahhh's picture
03/29/18
For a lot of families, technology is maybe not a way of life but the glue that holds everything together. There's your kid's Instagram feed you follow to see what they're up to. There's your school's online network you check for homework and grades. There's the mapping app that gets you to your...
Caroline Knorr's picture
03/29/18
Read on for the highs and lows in the FY18 omnibus spending package, the future of the Farm Bill, and a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.
Lecia Imbery's picture
03/29/18
Congressional leaders are mulling what to do for the rest of the year. We have a list of ideas for them, but we want to hear from you.
Lecia Imbery's picture
03/28/18
Since the tragic shooting in Parkland, the national conversation on gun safety has dramatically changed. Students have taken the lead on asking for meaningful and sensible gun reform, and have elevated important and often-ignored discussions about gun violence in communities of color across America...
Dorie Klein's picture
03/28/18
Women’s wages fuel our businesses, economy, and most importantly -- working families. That’s why we teamed up with Main Street Alliance to mark equal pay day with a fun and high-impact gimmick. Over thirty coffee shops and other small businesses will be using our custom coffee sleeves and napkins on April 10th -- Equal Pay Day, the day when ALL women’s wages catch up with what men made in the twelve months of 2017 alone.
Sara Alcid's picture
03/28/18
I think we lose sight of the beauty, the most beautiful things I look back on in my life are coming out from underneath things I didn’t know I could get out from underneath. You know, the moments I look back in my life, and think, those were the moments that made me — were moments of struggle...
Tara Sarathy's picture
03/27/18
I have lost track of how many times I have cried and simultaneously been inspired due to the events at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, FL. The school is close to home. I live in Miami. That morning I knew that many parents would be reaching out to me wondering how to best help...
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