Prayers After the Storms
The Children’s Defense Fund’s logo comes from a drawing I saw in a gallery window during a walk through Cambridge, Massachusetts nearly fifty years ago, [...]
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The Little Rock Nine Anniversary: “Silence is Not an Option”
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 MoreDoing What Works to End Child Poverty
Unprecedented. 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“A Place for Everyone”
“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 MoreFinishing Summer the CDF Freedom Schools® Way
Thousands 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 MoreA Healthy Start for Hungry Children
Hungry 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 MoreThe Inflation Reduction Act: Celebrating, But Continuing the Work
In 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 More“We Belong in History”
History 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 MoreEncouraging Teachers
“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.” [...]
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