"Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor--bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes going in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it kinder hard.
Don't you fall now --
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair."
-- Langston Hughes
"Mother To Son"
Afua:
Friday, Day Twelve
Black Youth
African
American Children's Council
Black Community Crusade
for Children
Children's Defense Fund
Childwatch
International
National Black Child Development
Institute
National Center for
Children in Poverty
One In a
Million: A Student at Million Man March
Simba Program for
Black Male Youth
Stanley "Tookie" Williams'
Corner, Co-Founder of LA Crips
UNICEF
Street Soldiers/Omega Boys
Club
Heal the World
Foundation/Charities
Afro Ideas
Positive
Self-Images for the Black Child
Ebony Social
Club - Black Teenaged Sisters
Drive-By Agony
"Act Against
Violence": Model Initiatives to Overcome Youth Violence
"Save the
Children" - The Nidra King Center of Minneapolis
Miseducation in
America: The Story of Desegregation
Are
Schools Failing Black Boys?
Black Media Foundation
- Harlem Youth Newspaper Online
Stamp
on Black History - African Americans Honored by USPO
The Augusta Baker
Collection of African American Children's Literature & Folklore
Stand for Children
Follow the Monkey