In 2020, when the start of the COVID-19 pandemic led to a holy season like no other, Pope Francis published an Easter Sunday letter directed to movements and organizations working for justice for people with low incomes and those experiencing poverty. He …

“A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we …

… to support and protect young children. The Children’s Defense Fund  ( … You’ve been in the child advocacy world a long time … I want for everybody’s children. Marian Wright Edelman, founder of CDF, has … works at CDF has a Marian Wright Edelman story. In 1989 I …

Now that Women’s History Month has concluded, there’s been one more broad attack on methods of sharing our nation’s history: On March 27, President Donald Trump issued a new executive order affecting the 21 museums and 14 education and research centers …

An Idaho middle school teacher recently made headlines for refusing to take down a classroom poster she said she was told was “controversial” and “an opinion.” The poster shows a drawing of hands in many different skin tones, each with a red heart in the …

… see,” the children’s rights activist Marian Wright Edelman said. Maybe a child in the …

Sixty years ago, on Sunday, March 7, 1965, John Lewis and the Rev. Hosea Williams set out on a nonviolent march with a group of 600 men, women, young people and children headed from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. They were seeking the …

As a child, the great theologian Howard Thurman treasured spending time alone under a beloved oak tree in his yard: “I could sit my back against its trunk, and feel the same peace that would come to me in my bed at night. I could reach down in the quiet …

At the Feb. 13 Senate confirmation hearing on Linda McMahon’s nomination to become secretary of education, among the questions about withholding funding from schools teaching some lessons on gender and diversity, equity and inclusion, Sen. Chris Murphy (D- …

The week honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day in our nation ended under a barrage of threats to King’s vision and values and attacks on long-deserved, hard-earned protections and progress for millions of people. It is a shameful moment. But it is also a …