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Shared sacrifice in times of economic challenge
Tags Share Written by Jeffrey Siminoff In 1965, the average CEO to employee pay ratio was 20:1. For more than 20 years, it’s been around 300:1. Controlling costs is one thing, and doing so may be a necessary business decision. But employers send signals with their decisions, and when employee earnings are deflated while CEO…
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This Mother’s Day, I Cherish My Mother’s Strength and the Gift of Time
Tags Share Written by Kerry Kennedy. One of my earliest childhood memories is piling into our family’s convertible in the early 1960s—seven kids then, plus a couple of dogs and a football—and my mother driving us to the Department of Justice where my father worked as Uncle Jack’s attorney general. After visiting my father, we…
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A Mother’s Love: The Resilience of an Immigrant
Tags Share My mom immigrated to the United States in 1997. She worked a series of jobs between the time she arrived and the day she had me six years later. At work, colleagues and customers disrespected her because of her thick accent and initially low capability to speak English. Little did people know that…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces 2023 Book and Journalism Awards Winners
Tags Share NEW YORK, MAY 3, 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights today announced the winners of its 2023 RFK Book and Journalism Awards during a virtual ceremony with remarks by President Kerry Kennedy and featuring special guest presenters Michael Beschloss, David Cullen, Peggy Engel, Peniel Joseph, Rory Kennedy, Nick Kristoff, Arantxa Loizaga, Craig…
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Black Minnesotans Tell UN Panel of Harms Committed by Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Authorities
Tags Share Speaking with The Imprint, our staff attorney Delia Addo-Yobo highlights the physical and mental health repercussions of solitary confinement. Joined by partner organizations and directly impacted individuals, Delia recently traveled to Minnesota to present before UN delegates on the devastating ramifications of solitary. Read the full article for more information about RFK Human…
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After its first trip focused on addressing climate change, how Emerging Leaders is preparing students to become human rights activists
Tags Share When 12 students from Bangor, Maine, arrived in Washington, D.C. for Speak Truth to Power’s Emerging Leaders trip on April 16, they arrived ready to engage. The Emerging Leaders Trip is an opportunity for students from our partner schools to connect with a human rights issue. This year’s was centered around environmental justice…
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RFK: Personal Anecdotes 55 Years on
Tags Share May 1968 was Robert F. Kennedy’s last full month of campaigning for president before he was killed in June. While he is remembered more broadly for his vision of a more just and peaceful world, it is, perhaps, the anecdotes that best illustrate his character and a place to draw inspiration. Kevin Khadavi…
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AP-NORC and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Survey: Americans are concerned about threats to the free press
Tags Share Chicago, IL and New York, NY, May 1, 2023 — Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday, May 3, a new study from Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reveals Americans are concerned about attacks on journalists, restrictions on press freedoms, and the spread…
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Jerry Springer
Tags Share There was the Jerry Springer of the infamous TV show. And there was Jerry Springer who- especially in his earlier life- held great hope for our country and always respected our freedoms – as a campaign worker, a public servant and a journalist. He looked to Robert Kennedy as a hero who drew…
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Human Rights Education inspiration Prejean talks social justice, activism, on her 84th Birthday
Tags Share On her 84th birthday, Sister Helen Prejean showed few, if any, signs of slowing down. Prejean – the subject of a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Speak Truth to Power lesson plan that has reached roughly 5 million students since 2000 – is the nun who wrote the best-selling book Dead Man Walking…
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Statement on the death of Harry Belafonte
Tags Share NEW YORK— Harry Belafonte often described himself as “an artist, not a politician.” Few Americans have done so much to advance the causes of civil rights and social justice in our country as he has. All of us at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights are saddened, and we are inspired by a life…
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