There’s No Safe Place for Black Children in America

“There is no place for black children in this world,” intellectual giant and civil rights doyen W.E.B. Du Bois lamented in 1920.

His hyperbolic use of “this world” conveys the mean-spiritedness of mainstream life to the first generations of free black children growing up in what he called “a sneering, cruel world” of Jim Crow restriction and racial violence.

Now, here we are in a new century, and black children are still growing up in an American society that fundamentally hates them.

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