Labor Day
Labor Day has been celebrated in American communities since the late 1800s, and since 1894 the first Monday in September has been set aside as [...]
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Finishing 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.” [...]
Read More“The Future Has Its Eyes on You”
“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 [...]
Read MoreProctor Institute: Providing Sustenance and Hope
When I was a child my father was pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and my mother was director of the youth [...]
Read More“Is It Good for the Children?”
“I have a basic question that I ask related to policy making and leadership, and that basic question is, is it good for the children? [...]
Read MoreThe Fourth of July
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the [...]
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