Prevailing stereotypes about America’s youth, and particularly about young African Americans, are often wildly off base, either because they were never true, or because they have failed to keep up with the reality of generational change. Below is a selection of social indicators showing ways in which today’s younger generation exhibits substantially more positive behaviors […]
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Posted inHealth Care, January/February 2013, Magazine
Color-Blind Medicine?
In 2002, the Institute of Medicine published an oft-cited and controversial report entitled Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. The report concluded that members of minority groups, even when fully insured, tend to receive substandard care from their doctors. It cited disparities in how often whites and minorities received even routine […]
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2013, Magazine
The American Dream, Redeemed
How to make homeownership a safe bet for minority borrowers.
Posted inJanuary/February 2013, Magazine, Politics
Red, White, and Black
Three generations of African American politicians.
Posted inBooks, Education, January/February 2013, K-12, Magazine
Class No Longer Dismissed
Why some conservatives are warming to socioeconomic school integration.
Posted inJanuary/February 2013, Magazine, Politics
A Great President for Blacks?
If you think Obama hasn’t delivered for African Americans, take a closer look at his record.
Posted inJanuary/February 2013
A House Divided
Why do middle-class blacks have far less wealth than whites at the same income level? The answer is in real estate and history.
Posted inEconomy, January/February 2013, Magazine
The New White Negro
What it means that family breakdown is now biracial.
Posted inJanuary/February 2013, Law and Justice, Magazine
Prison’s Dilemma
Even if every convict were rightly sentenced, America’s vast, racially skewed incarceration system would still be morally indefensible.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2013, Law and Justice, Magazine
A New Role for Parole
African Americans suffer from high rates of incarceration and crime. Here’s how to drastically reduce both.
