Edelman has received more than 100 honorary degrees and many awards, including the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, the Heinz Award and a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship. In 2000, she ...

The Children’s Defense Fund announced today that Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the child-advocacy organization, will step down as president. She will move into a new role as president emerita and ...

The original Children’s Defense Fund logo came from a drawing I saw in a gallery window during a walk through Cambridge, Massachusetts, where CDF had its beginning. The artwork was by 5-year-old Maria ...

*WASHINGTON — Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund, has sent out an urgent SOS to protect Medicaid and the 37 million children it serves across the nation, including 40 ...

The biennial ceremony recognizes individuals who make significant contributions to American society. Award-winning filmmaker and producer Ava DuVernay, children’s advocate and educator Marian Wright ...

On November 12, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and its Director Kim Sajet welcomed more than 750 entertainers and luminaries from across the country to Washington, D.C., for the 2022 ...

Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, spoke about American citizens' obligation to combat the overwhelming presence of child poverty in a mostly full Cohen ...

Mrs. Edelman, a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, began her career in the mid-60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense ...

Award-winning filmmaker and producer Ava DuVernay, children’s advocate and educator Marian Wright Edelman as well as tennis champions Serena and Venus Williams each possess the kind of legacies that ...