Grim Statistics - How do we protect our children?

• Only 3 out of 100 Black males entering kindergarten will graduate from college.
• Every 5 seconds during the school day, a Black public school student is suspended.
• Every 46 seconds during the school day, a Black high school student drops out.
• Every minute, a Black child is arrested and a Black baby is born to an unmarried mother.
• Every 3 minutes, a Black child is born into poverty.
• Every hour, a Black baby dies.
• Every 4 hours, a Black child or youth under 20 dies from an accident, and every 5 hours, a Black youth is a homicide victim.
• Every day, a Black young person under 25 dies from HIV infection and a Black child or youth under 20 commits suicide.

Marian Wright Edelman, The Children's Defense Fund