Honoring Sherrilyn Ifill
Sherrilyn Ifill, the wonderful President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), just announced she will step down from LDF next [...]
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Investing in Our Other Infrastructure
Last week Congress passed a bipartisan infrastructure bill, providing long-awaited vital investments in buildings, roads, bridges, utilities, broadband, climate change mitigation, and more. These investments [...]
Read MoreGod Help Us to End Poverty Now—Beginning With Our 11.6 Million Poor Children
With Congress expected to vote on the Build Back Better Act imminently, I pray God will help our leaders and all of us find the [...]
Read MoreA Chance to Close the Gulf
For many American families the COVID-19 pandemic brought significant new challenges, and more than half of all households with children have lost income since the [...]
Read MoreA New Chance for Child Care
As Congress debates over critical early childhood investments, I am reminded of 1971 when earlier efforts to enact a comprehensive child care system were toppled [...]
Read MoreDr. Mary McLeod Bethune: Honoring a Great Role Model
Growing up in segregated Bennettsville, South Carolina, I was blessed to have parents who always tried to be and expose us to good role models. [...]
Read MoreStill Reconstructing
In a recent conversation with Ford Foundation president Darren Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Eric Foner spoke about his book The Second Founding: How the Civil [...]
Read MoreCongress, Don’t Play Political Football With Children’s Futures
As Congress continues to negotiate and finalize a budget reconciliation package, we must ensure the needs of children are not sacrificed to protect rich individuals [...]
Read More“Where Does It Hurt?” Listening to Heal Our Children
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Children’s Defense Fund’s interfaith National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths. We are grateful to the hundreds of congregations [...]
Read MoreHappy 100th Birthday to the Great Constance Baker Motley!
On September 14, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) celebrated the great life and legacy of trailblazing lawyer and judge Constance Baker Motley [...]
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