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Education
Congress Must Invest in Safe, Healthy, Inclusive Schools
We know school policing and harsh, exclusionary school discipline practices harm students, so we joined 90 civil rights and education organizations to call on Congress to advance critical legislation to provide safe, healthy, and inclusive school climates.
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Dr. King's Choice...and Ours
From 2008 to 2018, I served as pastor of Saint John’s Church, a multi-racial congregation in St. Louis. Centering the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s public vision, we called ourselves “beloved disciples building Beloved Community.” This hope-filled picture of a transformed nation animated our work together—in faith for justice.
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Honoring Dr. King Through the Right to Vote
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Child Health
The Children’s Defense Fund-California (CDF-CA) appoints Thomas B. Harvey as State Director and National Litigation Strategist
The Children’s Defense Fund has appointed attorney and racial-justice advocate Thomas B. Harvey as State Director of CDF-California and National Litigation Strategist.
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Child Poverty
Families should be receiving a CTC payment today. Instead, they’re worrying about how to make ends meet.
On this day last year, my son and I watched events unfold just two miles from our new home in Washington, D.C. Dallas—my artist, the empath among my four children who feels deeply all that he sees around him—was unnerved in the place where I was moving my family. He watched, with children across the nation, as the hopes for his well-being were attacked at the Capitol.
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Honoring Beloved Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Raising Democracy - A letter from Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
On this day last year, my son and I watched events unfold just two miles from our new home in Washington, D.C. Dallas—my artist, the empath among my four children who feels deeply all that he sees around him—was unnerved in the place where I was moving my family. He watched, with children across the nation, as the hopes for his well-being were attacked at the Capitol.
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