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Books : The State of Black America 2007: Portrait of the Black Male |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0496
EAN: 9780931761850
ISBN: 0931761859
Label: Beckham Publications Group
Manufacturer: Beckham Publications Group
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: April 17, 2007
Publisher: Beckham Publications Group
Sales Rank: 242406
Studio: Beckham Publications Group
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According to the 2007 National Urban League Equality Index, although many black men are doing well, glaring economic and other gaps continue to exist between them and their white counterparts. Because of its devastating and far-reaching ramifications, the status of the black male is the most serious economic and civil rights challenge we face today. The 2007 State of Black America report takes up this challenge with a fresh and in-depth look at the current conditions facing the Black male. Based on this research and analysis by some of America's best minds, the National Urban League presents several targeted and comprehensive recommendations designed to eliminate the equality gaps and empower all Black Americans, male and female.
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In a society where black people are clearly culturally inferior, no plan will resolve the situation, except the aceptance of the superiority of western civilization.
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THE STATE OF BLACK AMERICA takes up the challenges facing the African American community, provides the startling statistics while giving suggestions for improvement. Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama eloquently acknowledges the problems that the African American community faces while pledging to embark on the journey of solutions with all concerned. The National Urban League provides readers with a detailed easy-to-read dissection of the Equality Index. This index complies data from economics, health, education, social justice and civic engagement.
The essays are eye-opening and poignant focusing on the Black male, college completion, foster care, affirmative action and much more. Some of today's leading scholars offer insight in the following areas: Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Breaking the Hip Hop Hold and Universal Fatherhood. The prescription for change includes universal early childhood education, changing the current public school models, offering 2nd chances to ex-offenders and high school drop outs, reinforcing the idea that education pays and restoring the Federal summer job program. The book closes with a section honoring those influential African Americans that recently left to be with the Lord, profiling the authors of the text, and detailing a history of the National Urban League.
THE STATE OF BLACK AMERICA is a must read for everyone interested in changing the current course American has taken. The statistics will leave ... Read More
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"America has done a disastrous thing, a thing which the war enterprise in Iraq will throw its shadow over our economic life for a generation. A thing which created a national embarrassment to the people of this great nation in the way our government responded to the before math and aftermath of hurricane Katrina".
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With the Equality Index, I would have liked to have seen other races besides whites stacked up in this picture also. This is not a white only country or world. I found the statistics in this book or report to be at times fractionary.
The Social Justice gap desperately needs narrowing. Blacks need to stop killing each other. We are annihilating our own race. If we don't manage our race better we will experience the same social and financial tragedies as the Native American Indians.
Due to shorter life expectancy, least educated, high incarceration levels, black men will divert black women to consider more bi-racial relationships.
Blacks can increase leadership positions through Union hubs. Ted Kennedy's reintroducing of the Employee Free Choice Act continues to reaffirm that feat. Unions were fundamental in building America's middle class, and they have a vital role today in preserving the American dream for working families. Union wages are 30 percent higher than non-union wages. In 2005 alone, more than 30,000 workers were illegally fired or retaliated against for attempting to exercise ... Read More
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