BLACK COMMUNITY CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN

BLACK COMMUNITY CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN
The Black Community Crusade for Children (BCCC) has organized to confront a deepening crisis faced by Black children and is calling on America to take action. A toxic cocktail of poverty, illiteracy, racial disparity, violence and massive incarceration is sentencing millions of children of color to dead end, powerless and hopeless lives and threatens to undermine the past half century of racial and social progress.
Find the latest research and analysis here, and decide if you think this is the worst crisis faced by Black children since slavery. Watch videos of Black leaders, thought leaders, talking about the challenges and the solutions. Get informed, get connected, and join the crusade for all our children. We don’t have a minute, or another child, to lose.

Watch the BCCC Press Conference

On Thursday, January 13, 2011, Marian Wright Edelman and Geoffrey Canada announced the BCCC strategies and goals to confront the deepening crisis facing children. Geoff Garin, president of Hart Research Associates, joined them to present important new research he has conducted on behalf of CDF. Watch the press conference here.

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