The "Life Chances" of African American Youth
facts from:  The Children's Defense Fund

The data presented here was initially published as part of the media press kit sent out by African American director John Singleton with his hit motion picture Boyz 'N The Hood as a way of helping to explain the tremendous obstacles facing Black American youth. The data was excerpted from the unpublished SOS, Black Folk! An Action Primer for Black Parents and Leaders done by the Children's Defense Fund, copyrighted 1990. One can secure even more updated data by contacting the CDF On-line or by writing to this Washington, D.C.-based organization for a copy of their State of America'sYouth Annual Report.


A Black Boy today has:

A Black Girl today has:


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