Gaps in literacy can lead to a path of poverty
by Mark Anthony Neal
This past weekend, a group of Black scholars convened in Princeton, NJ to discuss current concerns about the lives of Black men and boys. The group, the Scholars Network on Black Masculinity, headed by University of Michigan Sociologist Alford Young, Jr. covered topics like, single headed households, rigid gender expectations, the criminal justice system and mental health among others. The gathering made it clear that there are no magic bullets—or rather magic solutions to address the crises among Black men and boys, only strategies wedded to the kinds of in-the-trenches work that will get little attention.
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