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the black parent’s resourse center

who are DAEUS? AND WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT?

Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States ( DAEUS)

African Americans are black Americans who are descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States. Unfortunately, in popular culture, African American is often used to describe any American, who is of Black African descent, including recent immigrants.

To understand the effects of systemic white supremacy and anti-black racism in the US, we need to understand the historical circumstances that make DAEUS an especially vulnerable group.

The United States established a distinctive legal framework that espoused freedom and democracy while brutally suppressing people of African descent regarding them as nothing but property and chattel. Over 544 years, in three phases of American history, the law has been used to oppress people of African descent: the invention of racial slavery, the re-creation of slave-like condition through legal Apartheid (also known as Jim Crow) and the re-creation of Jim Crow through the new American Apartheid.

via racism.org

Kaiser/RCF Connects and Healthy Richmond community grant

IN July 2021, THe Black Parents Resourse Center was awarded the kaiser/rcf connects and healthy richmond community grant for $10,000 to support outreach and education around COVID-19 testing and vaccinations to the Black/ African-American community in West Contra Costa County, per the successful application that you submitted.

THANK YOU.