By the time they enter kindergarten, 1 out of 4 African-American boys in California expect to never be successful, according to last year’s findings by…

  Forty Worst Cities in America for Black Men Not Working    Percentage of employed, working-age (16-64) black males in these cities:  Detroit     43.0 Buffalo     43.9 Milwaukee     44.7 Cleveland     47.7 Chicago     48.3 St. Louis     51.3 Philadelphia     51.7 Phoneix     52.0 Cincinnati     52.6 Indianapolis     52.6 Richmond     52.7 Memphis     53.2 Hartford     53.3 San Francisco     53.3 Pittsburgh     53.3 Miami     53.4 New […]

When I went to the screening of Spike Lee’s movie Malcolm X , Rodney King was sitting in the front row and I was seated next to Alice Walker. At that time he was the proof of what Black men had been saying for so long: The police are trying to kill us unjustly and […]

Audio Included in Post. Runs 18 Minutes. ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. In an exclusive Afternoons with Amos interview, a national foundation reported that Indiana is one of the ten worst states in graduating Black males from high school. A report titled Yes We Can by the Schott Foundation for Public Education reported that just 42% of […]