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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Lessons After September 11

by Marian Wright Edelman September 18, 2024September 18, 2024

On September 11, 2001, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the beloved community was shattered by the terrorist attacks, but his words of hope and unity still inspire us to build a better world.

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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: A Back-to-School Prayer

by Marian Wright Edelman September 11, 2024September 11, 2024
Civil rights activist Dorie Ladner, pictured at a Freedom Orientation in Ohio in June 1964, died on March 11 in Washington, D.C. She was 81. (Courtesy of SNCC Digital Gateway, Herbert Randall Freedom Summer Photographs, USM)
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Honoring Freedom Summer

by Marian Wright Edelman September 4, 2024September 4, 2024
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Following Footsteps, Breaking Barriers

by Marian Wright Edelman August 28, 2024August 28, 2024
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Convention

by Marian Wright Edelman August 21, 2024August 21, 2024
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: The Scratch Line

by Marian Wright Edelman July 17, 2024July 17, 2024
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: ‘Dream and Labor’

by Marian Wright Edelman July 10, 2024July 10, 2024
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Gun Violence — Acknowledging a Crisis

by Marian Wright Edelman July 2, 2024July 2, 2024
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Celebrating Juneteenth

by Marian Wright Edelman June 18, 2024June 18, 2024
President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King Jr. at the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Aug. 6, 1965. (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum via Wikimedia Commons)
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MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Building a ‘Great Society’

by Marian Wright Edelman June 5, 2024June 5, 2024

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