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‘A Celebration of Joy’: CDF-Minnesota to Mark 40 Years of Advocacy for Children, Youth
A Celebration of Joy will reflect CDF-Minnesota’s commitment to improving the economic, educational, and health outcomes of young people in the state.…
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“The America That Is Yet to Come”
This month marked the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the historic legislation President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law at the U.S. Capitol with many of the Democratic and Republican lawmakers who had helped secure its large bipartisan victory and civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, and Mrs. Rosa Parks, by his side.…
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Holding a Vision
A few months before the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s official opening in September 2016, Dr. Rex M. Ellis, the museum’s founding Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs, spoke to college-aged servant-leaders who were preparing to teach in Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® summer programs. …
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A Solemn Anniversary
This week was the solemn 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first and only time nuclear weapons have been used in war. …