In September 1957, nine Black teenagers started the new school year and changed history. Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria [...]
Read MoreUnprecedented. Historic. Unequaled. Astounding. We rarely hear adjectives like these associated with good news about child poverty, but these are a few of the words [...]
Read More“As Barack said, if the two of us can end up on the walls of the most famous address in the world, then, again, it [...]
Read MoreThousands of students who attended Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® summer enrichment programs this year are now headed back to school armed with the [...]
Read MoreHungry child, I didn’t make this world for you. You didn’t buy any stock in my railroad. You didn’t invest in my corporation. Where are [...]
Read MoreIn a week full of headlines, President Biden was celebrating a series of key victories for his priorities in Congress and beyond. One of the [...]
Read MoreHistory is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there [...]
Read More“Teaching children may be the highest way to seek God. It is, however, also the most daunting way, in the sense of the greatest responsibility.” [...]
Read More“The future has its eyes on you.” That was the message children enrolled in Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® summer programs across the country [...]
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