Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)
NBA Foundation, CDF, Partner To Expand Leadership Development
Photo: NBA Foundation Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) is excited to announce our extended partnership with the NBA Foundation. In its largest single grant to ...
U.S. Apocalypse–Guns Kill 3,410 Children Yearly
Photo: West Midlands Police. Wikimedia Commons. On November 6, 17-year-old Da’Qwan Jones-Morris, a former Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® scholar from St. Paul, ...
Tribute To Rev. James Lawson: At 90, Still Tireless Warrior for Soci-economic and Political Justice
Rev. James Lawson. Photo: Vanderbilt.edu This is how Rev. James Lawson puts it: “The way through chaos, calamity, and confusion is not by adding ...
What Books Are Your Children Reading This Summer: Diversity in Knowledge Sources
One Crazy Summer [Commentary] Do your children love the books on their summer reading lists? Are your children reading about diverse cultures and books ...
Celebrating Bi-partisan Law: Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families
Marian Wright Edelman While we rarely hear good news these days about Congress, I have some to share. Continuing a long tradition of bipartisan ...
U.S. Education: Towards Dismantling Industrial Cradle To Prison Pipeline
Marian Wright Edelman — nation’s number one children’s advocate In ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?’ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ...