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Far too many of our children are being lost to senseless acts of violence in our inner-cities. Not only are the families in a deep state of pain, the Black communities of this nation, from the East Coast, to the West Coast are in turmoil because of this horrific state of affairs.

Erecting the National Black Children’s Memorial Wall of Remembrance is taking a giant step toward bringing awareness to everyone on the National and International level. The “War On Black Children” right here, on U.S. soil must be exposed to the masses. The media is nullified to the call of death in our communities on a daily basis. If the media decides to cover a death of a child in our community it only lasts for a day or two but it rarely if ever makes the front page news.

The MEMORIAL grounds, we shall pay homage to and acknowledge every child that we know of, who has lost their lives to the evils of this nation. This Memorial Wall will begin it’s time line with the four little girls who died in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama – blown up as they attended the 16th Street Baptist Church Service. Their names: Denise McNair (11), Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Robertson (14) and Cynthia Wesley (14). Then our timeline then takes a drastic turn for the worse because over 50,000 Black Children have been slaughtered on our Urban streets since 1980. We will honor each and everyone of them. "It takes a VILLAGE to raise a child but a NATION to HONOR AND MEMORIALIZE them."

Very often in the African-Amreican communities we speak of unity, but when it is most needed we tend not to lend a hand. We MUST, this day, go FULL OUT in “operational unity,” to make this MEMORIAL a reality. In spite of all the things around us that whisper in our ears that this can’t be done, we dare to send out a clarion call to all Americans throughout the Diaspora to work with us to start thinking about changing our reality, NOW!! We can not let another 50,000 children die in our streets. Let us embrace our total community for the solution to problems. From the church community to the hip hop community, let us stand together in honoring of our children that have passed on and the IMMEDIATE protection of our children Inner-City.

If 50,000 violent losses of young black lives are not enough to put our minds together to engaging some deep thinking and find some solutions about the protection of our children, then what is?

No one could ever express the hurt that the black community has for the loss of it's children, but....before God we try." Dr. Donald R. Evans Sr.