January 19, 2011
The Huffington Post
The Black Community Crusade for Children
By Marian Wright Edelman
As our country remembers the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., new research conducted for the Children’s Defense Fund has found the vast majority of America’s black community, seven in 10 adults, view these as “tough or very bad times” for black children and many see poor black youths falling further behind. When 40 percent of black children are born poor, 85 percent of black children cannot read or do math at grade level in fourth grade ...
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