Emerging statistics on Black Americans, over the last decade, indicate that the economic and social progress of the race, on the whole, is travelling down a negative road of racial genocide and that steps must be taken now to stop this encroaching tragedy. Almost 30 percent of all Black-American families are now living below the federal poverty guideline, compared with 8 percent of white families. The national infant mortality rate is 50 percent higher among Blacks than among whites, and in New York City, with the advent of the drug crack, infant deaths have increased by 20 percent. One third of Black New Yorkers between the ages of 5 and 19 years are victims of homicide; nationally, the leading cause of death for Black men between the ages of 16 and 34 is murder. Nationally, Blacks account for 24 percent of all AIDS cases. Half the female AIDS victims are Black; two of three infants born with AIDS are Black. Of the fifty thousand women in New York City who are infected with the AIDS virus, 80 percent are Black or Hispanic. More Blacks than whites are afflicted with heart disease, cancer, and cirrhosis. Blacks have hypertension and strokes at twice the rate of whites. Approximately 70 percent of poor Black families are headed by women. Over 57 percent of Black births are out of wedlock. Since 1981, unwed motherhood has replaced marital breakup as the leading cause for welfare eligibility.'