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“My mother always said, ‘Learn what you can learn for yourself, and then share your knowledge with others.’ My goal now is to advocate for equality [...]
Read More“My mother always said, ‘Learn what you can learn for yourself, and then share your knowledge with others.’ My goal now is to advocate for equality [...]
Read More“I had never been to Mexico. We left with just one trunk full of belongings. No furniture. A few metal cooking utensils. A small ceramic [...]
Read MoreWhen foundation and civil rights and antipoverty leader and supporter Leslie Dunbar died January 4th at 95, the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) and many civil rights [...]
Read MoreA number of years ago, I heard a deeply moving story at a Children’s Miracle Network event, a charity that raises money in partnership with [...]
Read MoreHuman progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Even a superficial look at history reveals that no social advance rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. [...]
Read MoreI begin each year with a women’s spiritual retreat led by Rev. Shannon Daley-Harris, our Religious Affairs Advisor, at Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Haley Farm [...]
Read MoreThis has been a trying year for so many children in America — confused, consumed by and afraid of the intolerance, hatred and anger of [...]
Read MoreThe last few weeks have been a very difficult time for so many of us and we may want to give up the struggle to [...]
Read MoreThe United States Congress and Trump Administration are engaged in a morally abominable massacre of the hopes, dreams and basic survival and development needs of [...]
Read MoreLord I can’t preach like Martin Luther King, Jr. or turn a poetic phrase like Maya Angelou but I care and am willing to serve [...]
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