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A New Site for Truth-Telling

On March 27, the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park officially opened in Montgomery, Alabama—the newest extraordinary Legacy Site created by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI).

April 5, 2024 | National

Children’s Defense Fund Names Kathleen M. Flynn Chief Operating Officer, Promotes Sheri A. Brady to Vice President & Chief Program Officer

Following a nationwide search, Kathleen M. Flynn has been named Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Children’s Defense Fund. She will support Children’s Defense Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Starsky Wilson in the development and coordination of multi-year operational, financial, and human capital plans for the organization.

April 3, 2024 | National

Reminders of Renewal

As Christians prepare to celebrate Easter, in the midst of this holy season for so many faith traditions, I return again to the Easter Sunday service Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. preached in April 1957 at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, titled “Questions that Easter Answers.”

March 29, 2024

Dorie Ladner’s Example

March 22, 2024

Ella Baker

March 15, 2024 | National

Reporting on the Road Ahead

The National Urban League has just released the 2024 edition of its signature publication The State of Black America, and this year the report centered on examining the 60th anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.

March 8, 2024

Child Poverty

Children’s Defense Fund Statement on 2024 State of the Union

Last night, President Biden presented a vision for building a nation where all children can thrive, from crucial interventions to provide children and youth with high-quality early learning experiences to economic and community interventions that create conditions for young people to grow up with dignity, hope, and joy.

March 8, 2024 | National

Early Childhood

NAACP, Children’s Defense Fund and Other State-Wide Advocacy Organizations Join in Support of Assemblywoman Rubio’s AB 2222

March 7, 2024 | California

Black History, Women’s History: Septima Clark

As Black History Month ends and Women’s History Month begins, it’s always a special privilege to honor leaders who overlap in both—Black women who did their part to change American history.

March 1, 2024 | National

Black History Month: Celebrating the Arts

Every year, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the organization established in 1915 by “the Founder of Black History” Dr. Carter G. Woodson, designates a theme for the observance of Black History Month, and the 2024 theme is African Americans and the Arts.

February 23, 2024 | National