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Posts by John Henry

“All Roads Lead to the South”: CDF Leadership to Join Historic Voting Rights Protest

May 14, 2026 - CDF Board Chair Rev. Dr. Don Darius Butler will help bus attendees from Huntsville to Selma and Montgomery for Saturday’s National Day of Action to fight for a democracy that reflects the faces of all America’s children.

May 14, 2026 | National
CDF: Supreme Court Ruling on Voting Rights Act Threatens Voices for Black and Brown Children

On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision that weakens a key part of the historic Voting Rights Act. The legislation, which was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, eliminated legal barriers that once kept thousands of African Americans across the country from voting.

April 29, 2026 | National
CDF-Texas: Proposed Rule Change Could Threaten Housing Security for Thousands of TX Children

The federal government estimates that its proposed rule change could threaten the housing of 36,000 eligible children living in immigrant and mixed-status households nationwide. Nearly a quarter of impacted families live in Texas.

April 21, 2026 | Texas
Rural Mississippians Stand to Lose Again in Efforts to Gain Access to Quality, Affordable Broadband Internet

Trump administration’s efforts to rescind $700 million of the $1.2 billion in broadband expansion grants allocated to Mississippi through Biden’s BEAD program diminishes opportunity in the state.

April 20, 2026 | Southern Regional Office
New CDF-Ohio Research Details the ‘Quiet Undoing’ of School Discipline Reform in Ohio Public Schools

CDF-Ohio’s report shows during the 2024-2025 school year, Black, non-Hispanic students were four and a half times more likely than White students to experience exclusionary discipline in Ohio.

April 13, 2026 | Ohio
New CDF-Ohio Report Examines Gun Violence’s Psychological Impact on Youth, Economic Cost to State’s Communities

As gun violence remains a leading cause of death for Ohio’s youth, CDF-Ohio urges lawmakers to reverse this trend by investing in community-based interventions and enacting Child Access Prevention mandates.

March 23, 2026 | Ohio
CDF Welcomes Ramesh Raghavan, Mariana Souto-Manning as the Newest Members of Board of Directors

The child well-being and early learning experts will strengthen CDF’s board governance and policy advocacy.

February 6, 2026 | National
CDF to Congress: No More Funding for DHS Brutality

‘All children deserve to grow up in safe communities’: CDF demands Congress stop funding for family-disrupting tactics.

February 4, 2026 | National
Austin Vigil Demands End to Family Detention in Solidarity with Children Inside Texas ICE Facility

Event comes after United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) transferred five-year-old Liam Ramos of Minneapolis to its detention center in Dilley, south of San Antonio, last week.

January 28, 2026 | Texas
Funding Freeze Harms Children, Families, and Small Businesses

Courts and communities must speak up to rollback punitive, political attack on child care.

January 15, 2026 | National