Black Crusade Addresses Growing Crises Facing Black Children
Posted By The Editors | February 1st, 2011 | Category: Education | 1 Comment »
Print This PostBy TaRessa Stovall
“Black Children and Families are Facing the Worst Crises Since Slavery,” was the campaign tagline when the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) launched its Black Community Crusade for Children (BCCC) nearly 20 years ago. The focus then, as now, was fighting child poverty.
Today, the BCCC is launching its second phase, with a deepened focus on raising public awareness about the plight of black children and “replacing the Cradle to Prison Pipeline with a pipeline to college, productive work, and successful adulthood for all black children,” according to Marian Wright Edelman, CDF President and Founder.
The Washington Post stated that, “According to the 2010 Census, black children are three times as likely to be poor as white children. Forty percent of black children are born to poor families, compared with 8 percent of white children. And a black boy born in the past decade has a 1-in-3 chance of going to prison in his lifetime.”
“We have to again