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Black Maternal Health Week Webinar with Michigan Advocates: Community Voices in Maternal Health Policy

April 24, 2025

In honor of Black Maternal Health Week 2025 (#BMHW25), the Alliance for Early Success and the Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health (MCMCH) co-hosted a webinar on engaging community voice and partnerships to enhance maternal health. Watch the recording to learn how community-informed research and policymaking is supporting support Black maternal health in Michigan.

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Juneteenth Celebration and Juneteenth Action

June 19, 2024

JUNETEENTH 2024 REFLECTION The Alliance for Early Success is joining our neighbors in a celebration of freedom and a renewed commitment to dismantling the pervasive legacy of slavery.

Montana’s Push to Improve Early Education Includes a Partnership to Protect Tribal Languages

October 9, 2023

Zero to Five Montana is improving early education by helping to protect the languages of the state’s 12 Native American tribes. It’s an effort to enrich children, support early educators, and draw on the experience and expertise of the larger community. Young children experience a better understanding of their own cultural identity when they can learn their tribal language, and this cultural knowledge helps heal some aspects of generational trauma that many indigenous families live with.

Alliance for Early Success Juneteenth Statement on America’s Enduring Racial Disparities

June 19, 2023

As the Alliance for Early Success joins our neighbors across the country in the commemoration of Juneteenth, we also mark the enduring impact of slavery and the ever-present ways it shapes the ways we live today. Racism remains entrenched in our country’s systems – both in our policies and in the comfortable habits that perpetuate inequity.

Meet Maternal and Child Health Pioneer Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, America’s First Black Female M.D.

February 1, 2023

As we kick off Black History Month, the Alliance for Early Success celebrates the achievements and legacy of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, America’s first Black female medical doctor.

Alliance for Early Success Juneteenth Statement on Naming and Dismantling Structural Racism

June 19, 2022

The Alliance for Early Success joins our neighbors across the country in the commemoration of Juneteenth, the century-old-at-least holiday celebrating the real end of American enslavement – the day, two years after emancipation, that the last enslaved Americans learned of their freedom.

Meet the Chinese-American Parents Whose Lawsuit Desegregated Schools—69 Years Before Brown v. Board of Education

May 13, 2022

This May, which is nationally recognized as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we lift up the story of two parents whose 19th-century advocacy for their own children opened the schoolhouse doors for countless more.

Celebrating the Advocacy of Child Health Champion Mona Hanna-Attisha

April 1, 2022

ARAB AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH SPOTLIGHT: As the nation kicks off Arab American Heritage Month, we’re spotlighting one of the country’s fiercest champions for young children, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, who uncovered the Flint Water Crisis and has not stopped advocating for the city’s children.

Black History Month Spotlight: Celebrating the Advocacy of Early Education Pioneer Dorothy Waring Howard

February 16, 2022

In 1929 ,Dorothy Howard founded the Garden of Children, the first nursery school in the District of Columbia, and one of the earliest in the country, for Black children.For black history month, early education takes the spotlight.

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Zeroing in on Skeptics with Jonathan Metzl: Why Early Childhood Advocates Must Upend Zero-Sum Perceptions of Government Solutions

November 17, 2021

WEBINAR The Alliance is joined by Jonathan Metzl, author of the best-selling Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. He has done extensive research on voters who oppose health policies that would benefit them, and his presentation to early childhood advocates encourages them to understand “zero-sum” solution perceptions.

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