Black Community Crusade for Children
Children's Defense Fund |
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Updated 9 years ago
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.
The BCCC, co-convened by CDF with Dr. John Hope Franklin and Dr. Dorothy Height, was quietly launched in 1990 to combat one of the worst crises the Black child and family faced since slavery. Over the past two decades, BCCC's successes include the CDF Freedom Schools® program; the Harlem Children's Zone; youth leadership development programs which have trained 20,000 young leaders; economic empowerment work in 77 "Black Belt" southern counties; and the placed-based policy work of PolicyLink.
To learn more about CDF's BCCC program visit shar.es/fGmzT
