Children

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May 13, 2011
SLIDESHOW - For the 'restavek' story we spent five days documenting the life of Rose Manette and three other servant…
May 6, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Since children, especially younger children, do not posses the vocabulary or emotional maturity to express their own…
May 2, 2011
OPINION - I have never met Kelley Williams or Tanya MacDowell. I know their stories not only because I read…
April 26, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a breakdown, the maternal mortality rate among African-American women was 36.1 per 100,000 live births,…
April 15, 2011
OPINION - Another black sibling would give Zahara a mirror in which to see her own beauty, and even be…
March 14, 2011
MIAMI (AP) - Ending a long and often-vengeful fight, a Chicago court has awarded Wade sole "care, custody and control"…
March 14, 2011
OPINION - Head Start, the popular preschool program serving nearly a million lower income children, has come under attack from…
March 10, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The president and first lady Michelle Obama convened a conference on preventing bullying Thursday...
March 9, 2011
VIDEO - The mother says the principal, who was on the playground at the time, wasn't paying attention. Now the…
March 9, 2011
HOUSTON - The owner, 22, is an international fugitive, accused of leaving seven children alone to go to a nearby…
March 8, 2011
OPINION - Too many kids are not being taught the proper respect and values at home, or how to conduct…
March 7, 2011
OPINION - By casting single mothers with one giant, disrespectful net, and targeting minorities in particular, Huckabee is playing with…
March 7, 2011
OPINION - How is this possible? The more I read about the tragic end of this family, the more outraged…
March 3, 2011
VIDEO - A fourth-grader from Frederick, Md., recently got away with something even the leader of the free world likely…
March 3, 2011
VIDEO - Florida investigators are working tirelessly to find out the identities of two children found in a Delray Beach…
March 3, 2011
OPINION - 'A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste' was and is a brilliant slogan for HBCUs who've historically…
March 2, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - After the glamour and glitz of recent days, it's back to the books for the chorus…
March 1, 2011
VIDEO - The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare has shut down a Homewood day care facility after the owner was…
February 28, 2011
VIDEO - India Rockett writes inspiring songs based on problems she and other kids face in their daily lives...
February 25, 2011
MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - Cosby and Dr. Alvin Poussaint are to receive Tufts' Eliot-Pearson Award for Excellence in Children's Media…