U.S. Dream Academy raises over $1.6 million for program focused on children of incarcerated parents

(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Across the U. S., approximately “2.7 million children have a parent serving time in prison or jail on any given day, and over 5.2 million have had an incarcerated parent at some point during their lives,” according to the Sentencing Project.Statistics on children of incarcerated parents revealed deep racial disparities. Thirteen percent of Black children have experienced parental incarceration while nearly half of that – 6% of White children – have experienced parental incarceration at some point in their lives, the Sentencing Project also reported.Related Stories Children who have at least one incarcerated parents are more likely to develop a mental and/or physical illness, according to the National Institution of Health.The growing number of children of incarcerated parents across the U.S. is the reason that a recent announcement by the U.S. Dream Academy, which invests in the lives and mental wellness of children of incarcerated parents, has so impacted the prospects for Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3. The organization has announced that billionaire media mogul and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey has made a major donation to the organization.“Maya Angelou once told me that your legacy is not one thing, your legacy resides in every life you touch,” said Winfrey during...