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 MoreWith 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 MoreFor 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 MoreAs 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 MoreGrowing 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 MoreIn 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 MoreAs 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 MoreThis 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 MoreOn September 14, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) celebrated the great life and legacy of trailblazing lawyer and judge Constance Baker Motley [...]
Read MoreIt was a gloriously beautiful morning in Atlanta, Georgia on September 11, 2001. I saw a glimpse of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s beloved community [...]
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