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 [...]

As the global coronavirus officially becomes a pandemic and the effects in our nation become more widespread each passing hour, children and all of [...]

“Fifty-five years ago, a few of our children attempted to march from Brown Chapel AME Church across this bridge. We were beaten, we were [...]

As a child Margaret Morgan Lawrence grew up grieving a brother she never knew. He was her only sibling, but had died before she [...]

I am joining countless others this February 21 to wish one of our greatest moral civil rights warriors and servant leaders, Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), [...]

Black leaders and the Children’s Defense Fund co-convened with distinguished historians John Hope Franklin and Dorothy I. Height in 1990 and again in 1992 for [...]