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Star Parker (b. 1956) is the founder and president of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education. An African American, former welfare mother who had been involved in a life of crime and who admits to having four abortions, she converted to Christianity and subsequently became a spokeswoman for conservative Christian political issues. She opposes the welfare system, claims that stable families and self-reliance are the best way to end poverty and opposes abortion. She is also a syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard News Service and the author of three books: White Ghetto : How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay (2006), Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It (2003) and Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger (1998).

Star Parker appeared as co-host on the daytime talk show ABC's The View the on June 19, 2007.

External links

• Star Parker's Column Archive on Townhall.com
• Star Parker Archive at WorldNetDaily
• White Ghetto : How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay ISBN 1-59555-027-5
• Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It ISBN 0-7852-6219-9
• Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger ISBN 0-671-53466-1

• 1957 births
• African American writers
• African Americans
• Columnists
• Living people