Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty | Marian Wright Edelman

What does it take to build a national movement? In a captivating conversation with TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell, Marian Wright Edelman reflects on her path to founding the Children's Defense Fund in 1973 — from the early influence of growing up in the segregated American South to her activism with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — and shares how growing older has only made her more radical.

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28 Comments on Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty | Marian Wright Edelman

  1. To end child poverty more effectively. More jobs, and much easier access to employment. Far too many barriers are put in place, keeping parents poor. Also 12hr working days are killing the family unit. If any parent is required to be out of the house for 14hrs a day, just to survive. Crazy

  2. Yes Ma’am !!
    Yes Ma’am !!
    Yes Ma’am !!
    Yes Ma’am !!
    Yes Ma’am !!
    Yes Ma’am !!
    Thank You.. is not enough for all you have done.

  3. TED platform has no credibility left, every video is either political propaganda or virtue signaling. I’m just not sure which one is this video.

  4. If love is supposed to then why should men want to with women. You say tough love. Why is Mysogyny worse then mysandry why are above blame. . Why always the man who has to change. Take his abuse as coralation

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