Explanation
The Department of Human Resources has been hosting the City's Black History Month Celebration for several years. The 2014 Celebration is scheduled for February 1, 2014 at the Lincoln Theater. This years' program will include Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund. Mrs. Edelman has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans for her entire professional life. Under her leadership, CDF has become the nation's strongest voice for children and families. The Children's Defense Fund's Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
Mrs. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. In l968, she moved to Washington, D.C., as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm and the parent body of the Children's Defense Fund. For two years she served as the Director of the Center for Law and Education at Harvard University and in l973 began CDF.
Mrs. Edelman will be speaking about the importance of praising the educational achievements of our youth, discerning and meeting their educational needs through sound educational principles and best practices for successful outcomes.
In October of this year, the Department of Human Resources entered into contract with Policy Works to provide planning and consulting services, and to receive and disburse funds to support the 2014 Black History Month Celebration. The amount of this contract was $19,500. Since entering into this contract, Policy Works has been able to secure the agreement with Mr...
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