The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has announced a five-year, $75 million dollar program called America Healing aimed at promoting racial equality and eliminating opportunity barriers for children.
“We must shine a light on racism so that we can put its effects on children and communities behind us,” says Gail Christopher, the foundation’s vice president of programs.
The National Center for Children in Poverty says that more than half of all African American, Latino, and Native American children live in low-income families. In comparison, just 26 percent of white children live in these conditions
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