Protesters March in 436 Cities to Stop Monsanto and Genetically-Modified Food
Groups of protesters have gathered all around the world to speak against Monsanto, the company that makes seeds and genetically modified food. A “March Against Monsanto” gathered protesters in 52 countries and 436 cities. The organizers carried signs with slogans such as “Real Food 4 Real People” and “Label GMOs, It’s Our Right to [...]
Can a Hungry Child Learn Well? Probably Not
Imagine how hunger affects your progress at work; now imagine being 7 years old, hungry every day and haunted by the fact that how you do on a math test could determine whether your family gets dinner next week. Legislation proposed by two congressmen last week would make such a scenario all too [...]
Why caring for children is not just a parent’s job
My inbox began filling with hateful, personal attacks on Monday, apparently as a result of conservative reactions to a recent “Lean Forward” advertisement now airing on MSNBC, which you can view above. What I thought was an uncontroversial comment on my desire for Americans to see children as everyone’s responsibility has created a bit [...]
What Can the President Do about Mass Incarceration? A Presidential Expert Explains
After a recent letter to the White House addressing mass incarceration was written by Dr. Boyce Watkins and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, thousands of celebrities, activists, business leaders and scholars got on-board. Public figures, including Jennifer Hudson, LL Cool J, Chris Rock, members of the Congressional Black Caucus and Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton endorsed [...]
Do We Hate Our Children?
Great societies value their children. They implement as a matter of course policies and practices that support each child’s healthy development, guarantee the fulfillment of a basic level of need, and in the best of all worlds, provide the tools with which talents can be developed, dreams can be nurtured and potential has, [...]
Is mainstream hip-hop a grave threat to our children?
This is part five of a theGrio series on hip-hop and its cultural impact on black America. Click here for part one of the series. Sometimes I think rappers are deliberately trying to get kids killed out here. The influx of negative imagery in music increasingly has absolutely no socially redeeming value and resembles ancient Sodom [...]
Teen Pregnancy: Actually, Liberals Got It Right
Writing at Clutch magazine, Kirsten West Savali rebuts the position of The Root‘s political correspondent, Keli Goff, on controversial billboards stigmatizing young mothers. In an op-ed for The Root, titled “Why Liberals Are Wrong On Teen Pregnancy,” political correspondent and author, Keli Goff, wrote that the criticism surrounding the campaign was “ridiculous,” “lunacy,” “well-intentioned but misguided.” According to [...]
For the Four Little Girls
Nearly 50 years ago, a bomb planted by white supremacists killed four little girls in Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church. Twenty-two others, mostly children, were injured in the blast just weeks after the historic “March on Washington” where Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There is [...]
15 Guys to Avoid Dating at All Costs
He’s cute, fun, smart and you can’t stop thinking about him. You’re already three steps ahead of the game, mentally planning weddings, children and that giant house with the white picket fence. Finally, after all these years, the perfect relationship has finally been found. Happily ever after sure feels good, huh? Not so [...]
‘We Must Never Give Up!’
The United States Senate’s failure to pass common sense gun safety measures — the Manchin-Toomey Amendment to expand background checks to keep guns away from underage or dangerous people, and amendments to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines designed only to kill as many human beings as possible — is a moral [...]
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