I’m 32 years old and I grew up white. I was raised in a suburban town of Dayton, OH where nearly everyone was white. The Dayton area follows the pattern of most metropolitan cities in America: urban core made up predominantly of people of color, particularly African-Americans, where the most recorded crime and the worst […]
Why there are more Black Men in Jail than in Jobs
Did you know the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world? (And we have had a 500% increase over the past 30 years!) Did you know the United States contains 5% of the world’s population but 25% of its prisoners? Did you know there are more black men age 20-34 […]