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National Leaders join Children’s Defense Fund Board
Children’s Defense Fund, the nation’s premiere child advocacy organization, has elected five new members to its governing Board of Directors, beginning in January 2025.
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Character and Service
President Carter once called justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, and love “the guiding lights of a life,” and those principles were the threads woven through the long lists of his own accomplishments.
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Nikki Giovanni
When poet, essayist, scholar, and activist Nikki Giovanni passed away on December 9, the world lost a singular voice.
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Education
Giving the Gift of Books
As parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, and adults everywhere are busy choosing holiday gifts for the children they love, books should always be at the top of the list.
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American Youth Policy Forum – Moving Forward
The impact of the 2024 election may shape our nation for generations. That is why I am pleased Children's Defense Fund was positioned to host the American Youth Policy Forum in Washington, D.C., on November 8th.
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A Litany of Thanksgiving
On this Thanksgiving, I share once again the beautiful prayer of great Black theologian Howard Thurman, A Litany of Thanksgiving. For many years I always made Thanksgiving dinner for our whole family and for friends away from their homes.
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Saying Grace
During the Thanksgiving season I often share the description of an editorial cartoon my father kept pinned up in the vestibule of our church that made a deep childhood impression on me I have never forgotten.
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