Every day my very beautiful, brilliant, and much beloved mixed-race African friend, Maria Nhambu—who was placed in a Tanzanian orphanage in her first week [...]

OH I AM WHO I AM Hear the cries of all Your children young and old everywhere during this scary pandemic Who are threatened [...]

Parenting is a call and a blessing that can be a challenge under any circumstances. This has been a season like no other, but [...]

Recently actor Will Smith conducted a video interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, our nation’s leading expert on the White House Coronavirus Task Force and [...]

On April 23 the U.S. House of Representatives approved Congress’s latest COVID-19 relief package by a 388-5 vote. Among other things it provides more [...]

During this holy season like no other, on Easter Sunday Pope Francis published a “Letter to Popular Movements and Organizations,” encouraging people struggling for [...]

The Passover and Easter holidays are traditionally times of joyous sacred celebration, with family and community rituals centered on the promises of exodus, deliverance, [...]

In the midst of the sadness and fear surrounding the pandemic our nation is struggling through, we have lost a civil rights giant. When [...]

As COVID-19 spreads across our nation more communities and families need help and hope every day. Today Congress passed a $2 trillion relief package [...]

As our nation and world enter the full terrors of the COVID-19 crisis the Children’s Defense Fund has been taking special steps to ensure that [...]