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Highlights

This Op-Ed piece by Bob Herbert was offered in response to the recent Schott Foundation report on the crisis facing young black men.

A new report by the Schott Foundation says that the U.S. K-12 system does a mostly inadequate job of educating Black males, as evidenced in large disparities in the graduation rate between Black males and their White counterparts.

Alexandria Cawthorne from the Center for American Progress put together an illuminating report on how Black men lead the unemployment surge in the United States.

Derrick Jackson of the Boston Globe wrote an interesting article on the state of NCAA basketball and what is happening with player graduation rates.

According to Duaa Eldeib of the Chicago Tribune, 100 percent of the all-male academy’s senior class (which happens to be 100 percent Black) has been accepted to 4-year colleges.



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