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Recent News
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Women’s History: Vision and Light
Forty-five years ago, President Jimmy Carter issued the first presidential proclamation designating March 2-8, 1980, as National Women’s History Week. …
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Child Health
CDF-Texas, Partners Respond as Trump Administration Reopens Child and Family Detention Centers in Texas
Children’s Defense Fund-Texas (CDF-Texas) and its youth and immigrant advocacy partners warn that President Donald Trump’s decision to reopen detention facilities in Texas to jail immigrant families could create an array of negative physical and mental impacts for children.…
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Remembering Selma
Sixty years ago, on Sunday, March 7, 1965, John Lewis and Reverend Hosea Williams set out on a nonviolent march with a group of 600 men, women, young people, and children headed from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery. …
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Child Welfare
In congressional address, American children were commodified and exploited
At the first Presidential Address to a Joint Session of Congress in his second term of office, President Donald J. Trump was, as my sons would say, ‘in his bag’ as showman-in-chief. Beyond the jokes, antics, and partisan division belying the historic decorum of the Chamber, the tradition of storytelling through special guests—popularized by President Bill Clinton—has become a project in propaganda. This time it both exploited and commodified our children. …