“Democracy Is On the Ballot”
In August 1965, as President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders at [...]
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“Give Light and People Will Find the Way”
Earlier this year, members of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® team and other colleagues had opportunity to attend a training session near the [...]
Read MoreOlive Wright Covington: Sister, Teacher
If one word describes me, it would be TEACHER. —Olive Wright Covington This summer my big sister Olive Wright Covington passed away. Olive was a [...]
Read MorePutting Children on The Cradle Roll
This weekend places of worship across the country will take part in the annual multifaith National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths® celebration, focusing prayers, worship, education [...]
Read MoreNew Steps Toward Ending Hunger
“In every country in the world and in every state in this country, no matter what else divides us, if a parent cannot feed a [...]
Read MorePrayers After the Storms
The Children’s Defense Fund’s logo comes from a drawing I saw in a gallery window during a walk through Cambridge, Massachusetts nearly fifty years ago, [...]
Read MoreThe Little Rock Nine Anniversary: “Silence is Not an Option”
In September 1957, nine Black teenagers started the new school year and changed history. Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria [...]
Read MoreDoing What Works to End Child Poverty
Unprecedented. Historic. Unequaled. Astounding. We rarely hear adjectives like these associated with good news about child poverty, but these are a few of the words [...]
Read More“A Place for Everyone”
“As Barack said, if the two of us can end up on the walls of the most famous address in the world, then, again, it [...]
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