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The passing of CDF Board Emeritus Leonard Riggio

Children’s Defense Fund mourns the passing of our dear friend and emeritus board member, Leonard Riggio.

September 6, 2024 | National

Honoring Freedom Summer

As summer draws to a close, we are also nearing the end of an extraordinary milestone – the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Summer.

August 30, 2024 | National

Following Footsteps, Breaking Barriers

August 23, 2024 | National

Statement: Children’s Defense Fund’s Response to Senate Vote Rejecting the Child Tax Credit, Bipartisan Tax Package

The President and CEO of America’s largest child and youth advocacy organization said the Senate’s decision to vote against a bipartisan tax package, which included an expanded child tax credit, ‘failed our children.’

August 1, 2024 | National

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board Elects Starsky D. Wilson, DMin, MDiv, as Next Chair of the Board of Trustees

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced today the designation of Starsky D. Wilson, DMin, MDiv, as the next chair of its Board of Trustees. Rev. Dr. Wilson, who has served as a Trustee since 2020, will become the Foundation’s eighth chair, and the first Black person and faith leader to chair the Board in the Foundation’s 52-year history.

July 30, 2024 | National

Women Creating Change

When a large meeting of Black women voters made headlines this week, to many people it was another reminder of the major role Black women and all women have always played in creating transforming change.

July 26, 2024

The Country We Need to Create

At a moment of so much uncertainty over where our nation is headed and what national unity really means, I return again to the wise words of my late friend Dr. Vincent Harding, the revered historian, theologian, social justice activist, and visionary who never lost sight of the “beloved community” his dear colleague Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed our nation and world could become.

July 19, 2024 | National

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The passing of CDF Board Emeritus Leonard Riggio

Honoring Freedom Summer

Following Footsteps, Breaking Barriers

Fannie Lou Hamer’s Convention

Staying Strong

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Statement: Children’s Defense Fund’s Response to Senate Vote Rejecting the Child Tax Credit, Bipartisan Tax Package

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board Elects Starsky D. Wilson, DMin, MDiv, as Next Chair of the Board of Trustees

Women Creating Change

The Country We Need to Create

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