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When you choose The Freadom® Road Foundation as your Amazon Smile charitable partner, your gifts for Mother's Day "magically"  transforms - without cost to you - into a gift for a needy child in our program. What could be easier, more economical and more caring?...

Preventing child abuse relates to our mission of breaking the cycle of intergenerational incarceration because child abuse is often perpetuated intergenerationally. Hampered learning, a lifetime of damaged self esteem, exploding latent anger, and likely future...

Valentine's Day is coming soon! When you choose The Freadom® Road Foundation as your Amazon Smile charitable partner, your gift to a loved one "magically" transforms - without cost to you - into a gift for a needy child in our program. What could be easier, more...

A bonanza of books arrives. They are all board books. They are all for babies and the families that love them. They are all brand new with sensory features. The books were selected by Maria Hayley, President of The Freadom®️Road Foundation, Trenetta McLemore,...

"Last-minute shoppers! Shop NOW, get it done, and help us too!" When you choose The Freadom® Road Foundation as your Amazon Smile charitable partner, your gift to a loved one "magically" transforms - without cost to you - into a gift for a needy child in our program....

"When you shop. Amazon gives." When you choose The Freadom® Road Foundation as your Amazon Smile charitable partner, your gift to a loved one "magically" transforms - without cost to you - into a gift for a needy child in our program. What could be easier, more...

The wall is the brick front of Funston Elementary School in Chicago. The occasion is the recent presentation of baskets of brand new books and other goodies for participants in the "John Stephan's Escape from the Jeopardy Zone" program. Pictured in the attached photos...

The mood was festive and joyous, yet bittersweet, at the unveiling of the Honorary DAN O’DONNELL Way at the corner of Armitage and Bissell streets in Chicago on Saturday, July 10, 2021. Tears and smiles shone intermittently on the faces of family, friends, neighbors,...

When you choose The Freadom® Road Foundation as your Amazon Smile charitable partner, your gifts for Mother's Day "magically"  transforms - without cost to you - into a gift for a needy child in our program. What could be easier, more economical and more caring?...

We celebrated National Library Week 2021 by launching two programs: “Celebrating Scribbles!” and “Escape from the Jeopardy Zone.” “Celebrating Scribbles!” was launched April 6th as part of our ongoing Freadom®️ Families program at Family Focus - Englewood (Chicago.)...

In his Autobiography, Malcolm X said that Black and White people should read not only their own history but also each other's. By extension, each should read the other’s literature. In the spirit of Malcolm X‘s insightful advice, the Clarence Darrow Branch Library...

We share memories of two special people and special moments relating to Black History and Culture at the former Clarence Darrow Branch Library in the Cook County Department of Corrections (CCDOC, i.,e., Cook County Jail). Mother Consuella York and Queen Mother...