Various aspects of the relationship between minorities and malnutrition are discussed in this brief paper. Malnutrition, one of the byproducts of low economic status, is creating a crisis-proportion health problem affecting minority citizens. Malnutrition seriously affects children, older people in poverty, and chronically unemployed or underemployed youth. It is also most likely to be found among the drug and alcohol addicted population. Frequently, malnutrition leads to tuberculosis and other diseases among older people and results in infant mortality and diseases of the newborn. Poverty has been identified as the cause of malnutrition, and a corresponding proportion of difficulties children experience in school and later in their career development may be due to deficit nutrition affecting brain growth during early life. Because Detroit's over fifty percent black population is the worst affected economically in the entire nation, the city is most likely to be affected by malnutrition on a scale greater than the national average. The Detroit Urban League intends to direct research effort in evaluating the nutritional problems of minorities in order to find productive outlets for channeling their resources. (Author/AM)