COVID-19 Relief and Children’s Needs: Child Well-Being Before Corporate Welfare
On April 23 the U.S. House of Representatives approved Congress’s latest COVID-19 relief package by a 388-5 vote. Among other things it provides more [...]
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All Humankind Should Heed Pope Francis’ Call
During this holy season like no other, on Easter Sunday Pope Francis published a “Letter to Popular Movements and Organizations,” encouraging people struggling for [...]
Read MoreA Season for Renewal and Hope
The Passover and Easter holidays are traditionally times of joyous sacred celebration, with family and community rituals centered on the promises of exodus, deliverance, [...]
Read MoreWisdom from Civil Rights Leader Rev. Joseph Lowery, A Big Oak Tree of Hope
In the midst of the sadness and fear surrounding the pandemic our nation is struggling through, we have lost a civil rights giant. When [...]
Read MoreProviding Help and Hope to Our Children in This Time of Great Crisis
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 [...]
Read MoreHelp Through Our Shared National and World Crisis
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 [...]
Read MorePrayers for Caring for All Our Children Right Now
As the global coronavirus officially becomes a pandemic and the effects in our nation become more widespread each passing hour, children and all of [...]
Read MoreKeep Marching to Redeem Our Nation’s Soul
“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 [...]
Read MoreDr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence
As a child Margaret Morgan Lawrence grew up grieving a brother she never knew. He was her only sibling, but had died before she [...]
Read MoreJoyous Birthday, Dear Friend John Lewis!
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), [...]
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