Despite Black Joy, There Are 5 Basic Human Rights Black People Still Don’t Have
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MadameNoire
The Ability To Protect One’s Children
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It is human nature to have an urgent need to protect one’s children. It’s an undeniable biological drive. But we know that protecting and raising children takes a village, and the village does not show up for Black parents the way it does for others. In fact, CNN reports that 37 percent of missing child cases are for Black children, while Black children only make up 14 percent of children in the U.S. Furthermore, missing cases for Black children are terribly underrepresented in the news.
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