News & Events
Guest Blog: Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award
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The RFC is a proud sponsor of the first-ever Abel Meeropol Social Justice Writing Award, which will be presented by Straw Dog Writers Guild to poet Patricia Smith on Sunday, November 12 at Gateway… Read More
Bequests Can Help Fund Our Future
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In their final letter to my father and uncle, my grandparents wrote that they were comforted in the sure knowledge that others would carry on after them.
Seven New Families Join the RFC Community
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NEW GRANTS
Mother Harassed for Giving Prisoners A Voice $6000 for sports activities for the four siblings, ages 14 to 18, whose mother spoke out against inhumane treatment of prisoners while she was… Read More
Upcoming Art & Activism Events
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We hope you can join us at our art & activism events coming up this fall. Visit www.rfc.org/events for more details on the programs below.
Sat, Sep 9th:
"Hip Hop and Activism" workshop with Rebel… Read More
Farewell Alli, Welcome Sophie
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Our prior Granting Coordinator, Alli Langley, left the Rosenberg Fund for Children in August. She’s headed to law school, where she plans to continue to serve the progressive community. “I am honored… Read More
Executive Director's Report: 10 Years at the RFC
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This summer marks my 10th year as a staff member at the Rosenberg Fund for Children. While I no longer feel like a new employee, it’s hard to believe I’ve worked here for a decade. I joined the RFC… Read More
The Art of Resistance
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As RFC Advisory Board member Angela Davis has noted, “Artists are an integral part of any movement for justice.” Artists were among the most prominent supporters of the fight to save Ethel and Julius… Read More
"Full of Joy": the 2017 Carry it Forward Gathering
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The RFC held our ninth Gathering the first weekend in August.
Meet Pamela Means
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Most members of the RFC Board of Directors live in western Massachusetts and have strong ties to local, regional and/or national activist communities.
Sons of Cold War spies reinvestigate their parents' case
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It was called "The Crime of the Century," one of the most famous espionage cases of the Cold War. In 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sent to the electric chair for conspiring to provide the… Read More
Visiting Ethel & Julius in Havana
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(guest blog by RFC Communications Director, Amber Black)It’s large, the monument. It resides on a nondescript corner of an intersection in Havana, Cuba. The striking portrait in stone honors a young… Read More
June 19, 2017: Honoring Ethel and Julius and Anne and Abel
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On this 64th anniversary of the execution of my grandparents, I’m struck by a related milestone that passed without fanfare a few months ago: the 60th anniversary of my dad and uncle’s adoption by… Read More
RFC Families and Kinship of Clover
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My mother, Ellen Meeropol, calls herself "a literary late bloomer.” After careers in art and medicine, she started seriously writing fiction eighteen years ago when she was well into her 50s, and has… Read More
Prisoners' Rights, Racial and Environmental Justice Activists Join the RFC Community
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We just finished awarding over $190,000 in grants for the first half of 2017. In addition to the four new beneficiaries discussed in my previous blog , three more new families have joined the RFC… Read More
The Sins of the Father Shall Not Be Visited on the Son
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's son has devoted his life to aiding children of imprisoned radical leftists. And his work is about to become more urgent than ever.
Prison abolition, racial justice and anti-female genital mutilation activists join the RFC community
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We’re in the midst of awarding our first grants of 2017 at the RFC. To date, four new grantees have joined the RFC community this spring and additional new applications are pending. So far, the new… Read More
Protecting Kids by Protecting Prison Visits
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One of things I’ve found fascinating about working in social justice organizations are the moments when an issue arises with so many implications for your work that information explodes from multiple… Read More
Honoring Lynne Stewart
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Radical attorney and former political prisoner Lynne Stewart died Tuesday, March 7th at the age of 77 following an extended battle with cancer. In her lengthy career, this “people’s lawyer” defended… Read More