Contact: JP Duffy, Family Research Council, 202-637-4679

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 /Christian Newswire/ -- On February 28, a coalition of black Civil Rights activists will meet for a day of events examining the impact of abortion on the black community beginning with a press conference at the Family Research Council Media Center at 11am located at 801 G Street, NW in Washington, DC.

They will also march and pray at key locations in the Nation's capitol on behalf of the living and the unborn.

Day Gardner, President of the National Black Pro-Life Union, speaking on behalf of the coalition states: "Throughout the month of February, we take one month out of the year to remember the tragedies and celebrate the triumphs of African Americans in history, but the struggle for civil rights is not yet over. We are the underground railroad of our time and it's up to us to make abortion a thing of our historical past."

The host committee for the event includes:

Dr. Alveda King of King for America

Priests for Life, Rev. Dr. Johnny Hunter of LEARN

Rev. Arnold Culbreath of Protecting Black Life

Rev Dr. Levon Yuille of National Black Pro-Life Congress

Bishop Harry Jackson of High Impact Leadership Coalition

Rev. Dr. Levon Yuille - National Black Pro-Life Congress

Star Parker of Urban C.U.R.E.

Claude Allen of Gerard Health Foundation

William Ford III of Hilkiah Ministries

Sylinthia Stewart of Aftermath Ministeries

Pastor Kenneth Barney of New Antioch Baptist Church of Randallstown, MD

Pastor Cleonard Childress of L.E.A.R.N., NE/Black Genocide

Pastor Luke Robinson of Voice of Truth & Life Ministries

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson of Brotherhood of a New Destiny, (BOND)

Dr. Loretto Cudjo Geier Smith

Dean Nelson of Network of Politically Active Christians, (NPAC)

and William Owens of Coalition of African American Pastors.

The National Black Pro-Life Union is an organization founded to serve as a clearing house to coordinate the flow of communications among all African American pro-life organizations and individuals in order to better network and combine resources. For more information, visit www.NationalBlackProLifeUnion.com