Children’s Defense Fund hosts a listening tour Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Allentown to hear about local families’ needs. As part of the annual tour, the national youth advocacy organization’s president ...

Children with the James Lawson Freedom School participate Wednesday, July 19, 2022, in a solidarity walk from the Promise Neighborhoods center in Allentown to the Martin Luther King and Coretta ...

A new weeklong summer learning program called Freedom School at the African American Museum of Iowa aims to immerse middle ...

In 2012, there were 170 Freedom Schools run out of 82 U.S. cities, according to the Children's Defense Fund. The program is for kindergarten through fifth graders and is based largely on a reading ...

The Freedom School at D.C. General and the Omega Freedom School at Malcolm X Elementary are among some 200 such schools in the country supported by the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF).

During the summer inside Third Baptist Church, you'll find nearly 20 kids apart of its Freedom School. It's a place where children learn to believe not only in themselves, but in making change in ...

Freedom High School held its prom Friday, May 12, 2023, at SteelStacks in Bethlehem. Students and their guests arrive to the big night. (Monica Cabrera/The Morning Call) Freedom High School held ...

The free, six-week summer literacy and cultural enrichment initiative serves children in communities without quality academic enrichment programming. The free, ...

Admission is $4.50 for adults, $3 for seniors and $1.50 for children under 18. For more information, call the Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center at 601-960-1457 or find the museum on Facebook.

The Freedom Schools curriculums developed in 1964 remain urgently needed, ... Bull Conner and his police force in Birmingham arrested over 1,000 children in K-12 schools.

Central to CDF Freedom Schools is its intergenerational leadership model. The program is staffed primarily by college students and recent college graduates, with a 10:1 child to adult ratio.