The original Children’s Defense Fund logo came from a drawing I saw in a gallery window during a walk through Cambridge, Massachusetts, where CDF had its beginning. The artwork was by 5-year-old Maria Coté, and shows a bright sun shining on a tiny boat …

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 …

… realized it reflected the Children’s Defense Fund mission … and world where every child is valued and protected, … treated and no child is left behind. Marian Wright Edelman is the … founder and president emerita of the Children’s …

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 …

This month marks the solemn 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first and only time nuclear weapons have been used in war. In 1962, Trappist monk and social justice and peace activist Thomas Merton published the prose poem “ …

I recently wrote about the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools program’s annual National Day of Social Action, which this year engaged thousands of students enrolled in CDF Freedom Schools summer programs across the country around the message “Public …

“Strong schools, brighter futures!” “School helps me grow!” “I can get into good trouble!” “What do we want? Good schools! When do we want them? Now!” These are just a few of the messages students in grades K-12 at Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools …

For people whose hearts are broken by seeing news of parents, families and children suffering anywhere, this has been a difficult week. It was an ideal moment to be buoyed by hopeful news like the messages the King Center in Atlanta shared during their …

On an extraordinary day when an estimated 5 million people came together at rallies and protests across the country to share their political views nonviolently, political violence still struck our nation. On June 14, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, …

Last month, the Annie E. Casey Foundation released its 2025 edition of the KIDS COUNT Data Book, an annual resource that measures national and state data on economic well-being, education, health, and family and community factors. As they sum up their …