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1.5 Million Black Men Missing The Great Atlanta Massacre of Black Educators Mass Black Male Graduation Support The Black Star Project Black People in Minneapolis 9 Times More Likely to Be Arrested Suicide Rates Doubles for Black Boys Links: The Black Star Project's website: blackstarproject.org Black Star Journal: blackstarjournal.org Become a Member: Click Here Make a donation: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: "You will always struggle to grow Black boys into strong, positive and productive young Black men with 1.5 million missing Black men from their lives. Fix the problem of missing Black men and you will fix the problem of troubled Black boys. You cannot mentor or educate or wish your way out of this catastrophe!" - Phillip Jackson, The Black Star Project -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.5 Million Missing Black Men Places with most missing men PLACE PCT. BLACK MEN "MISSING" New York 43.1% 118,000 Chicago 43.4% 45,000 Philadelphia 42.8% 36,000 Detroit 45.2% 21,000 Memphis 43.6% 21,000 Baltimore 44.0% 19,000 Houston 45.5% 18,000 Charlotte, N.C. 43.3% 15,000 Milwaukee 42.2% 14,000 Dallas 44.8% 13,000 By Justin Wolfers, David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy APRIL 20, 2015 In New York, almost 120,000 black men between the ages of 25 and 54 are missing from everyday life. In Chicago, 45,000 are, and more than 30,000 are missing in Philadelphia. Across the South - from North Charleston, S.C., through Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi and up into Ferguson, Mo. - hundreds of thousands more are missing. They are missing, largely because of early deaths or because they are behind bars. Remarkably, black women who are 25 to 54 and not in jail outnumber black men in that category by 1.5 million, according to an Upshot analysis. For every 100 black women in this age group living outside of jail, there are only 83 black men. Among whites, the equivalent number is 99, nearly parity. African-American men have long been more likely to be locked up and more likely to die young, but the scale of the combined toll is nonetheless jarring. It is a measure of the deep disparities that continue to afflict black men - disparities being debated after a recent spate of killings by the police - and the gender gap is itself a further cause of social ills, leaving many communities without enough men to be fathers and husbands. Perhaps the starkest description of the situation is this: More than one out of every six black men who today should be between 25 and 54 years old have disappeared from daily life. "The numbers are staggering," said Becky Pettit, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas. Incarceration and early deaths are the overwhelming drivers of the gap. Of the 1.5 million missing black men from 25 to 54 - which demographers call the prime-age years - higher imprisonment rates account for almost 600,000. Almost 1 in 12 black men in this age group are behind bars, compared with 1 in 60 nonblack men in the age group, 1 in 200 black women and 1 in 500 nonblack women. Higher mortality is the other main cause. About 900,000 fewer prime-age black men than women live in the United States, according to the census. It's impossible to know precisely how much of the difference is the result of mortality, but it appears to account for a big part. Homicide, the leading cause of death for young African-American men, plays a large role, and they also die from heart disease, respiratory disease and accidents more often than other demographic groups, including black women. The disappearance of these men has far-reaching implications. Their absence disrupts family formation, leading both to lower marriage rates and higher rates of childbirth outside marriage, as research by Kerwin Charles, an economist at the University of Chicago, with Ming-Ching Luoh, has shown. The black women left behind find that potential partners of the same race are scarce, while men, who face an abundant supply of potential mates, don't need to compete as hard to find one. As a result, Mr. Charles said, "men seem less likely to commit to romantic relationships, or to work hard to maintain them." Click Here to Read Full Story "The Great Atlanta Massacre": Black Educators Under Attack By now, you are aware of the 11 Educators in the Atlanta Public School System who were found guilty under the "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). What you probably don't know, are the facts as recorded by those involved. (Click Here to see The 20 Facts about the Great Atlanta Massacre of Black Educators) NCEBC wants to welcome the full village to question, understand, and support these martyrs who are standing on the basic democratic principles of equity, fairness, and justice. It is important (if not, vital) that we have this conversation to continue to dispel the myth that black children are incapable of achieving high test scores without cheating. "We believe in accountability. We believe that data drives decision-making. We believe in research-based practices.These principles have been used for generations by high performing schools, Principals and Superintendents; especially those working and succeeding in urban communities where poverty and race are the dominant elements.This conversation is about the politics, power, economics, and restructuring of a public school system into a charter school system." Diana Daniels Executive Director National Council on Educating Black Children Join hosts Dr. Adelaide Sanford and Kamau Jwyanza on NCEBCTalkRadio on Monday June 1 and Dr. Eric Cooper and Dr. Nicole McZeal-Walters on June 8 at 10AM ET for a special two part series. Click on "LISTEN LIVE" or dial 714-242-5228 to listen or participate via phone. Click Here to Listen Live Monday, June 1, 2015 at 10:00 am Eastern, 9:00 am Central, 8:00 am Mountain and 7:00 am Pacific. Recommend a Black Male Elementary School Graduate, High School Graduate or College Graduate for The Mass Black Male Graduation Ceremony on Saturday, June 20, 2015 with Keynote Speakers Attorney James Montgomery and Hip Hop Artist Jasiri X. Call 773.285.9600 to register the young Black men at your school and in your life. Will You Invest in Teaching Black Boys to Read? In 2014, The Black Star Project received very little government or foundation funding for our programs to improve the lives of Black men and boys. But that did not stop us from being one of the leading organizations in the country working to nurture, save, educate and empower Black males. Our programs over the past few years include the Million Father March, Daddy Daughter Dances, MLK Mentor Day for Young Black Men, Black Male Reading Academies, Math Boot Camps for Young Black Men, Mass Black Male High School Graduation Ceremony, College Fairs for Young Black Men, Take A Young Black Male To Worship and our Young Black Men of Honor Mentor Program. Please become part of the solution to improve the lives of young Black males by investing in the work of The Black Star Project. Just click the orange DONATE NOW button (or CLICK HERE) to make a positive difference in the lives of Black children, and children of all ethnicities that we serve. or send a check or money order to: The Black Star Project 3509 South King Drive Chicago, Illinois 60653 Black people in Minneapolis nine times more likely to be arrested for petty crime A study by the American Civil Liberties Union has found that while young whites make up 40% of Minneapolis's youth population they account for only 14% of youth arrests. Photograph: Jeff Wheeler/AP By Nicky Woolf May 28, 2015 Black people in Minneapolis are 8.7 times more likely to be arrested for low-level offenses than white people, according to an investigation by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The research into racial disparities in policing also found that native American people were 8.6 times more likely to be arrested for low-level offenses than white people. White youth, however, while making up 40% of the city's youth population, accounted for only 14% of youth arrests. The findings are based on Minneapolis police department figures, secured through a freedom of information request, on more than 96,000 low-level arrests between 1 January 2012 and 30 September 2014. The research comes after one teenager's encounter with the police was captured on a cellphone in which a police officer in the city is filmed telling him: "Plain and simple: if you fuck with me, I'm gonna break your legs before you get a chance to run." The footage was captured by 17-year-old Hamza Jeylani. Faysal Mohamed, who was in the car with Jeylani when he was arrested, told the ACLU that he had been detained several times. "I have to watch my back because the police are targeting me and targeting people like me," he said. "In poor and minority neighborhoods of Minneapolis, the police aren't seen as guardians who serve and protect," the report says. "Rather police officers are viewed suspiciously as oppressors who harass and arrest." Click Here to Read Full Story Click Here to Watch Video of a Police Stop in Minneapolis Suicide Rates Doubled Among African-American Boys Ages 5 To 11 Since 1993 (What is it that African American boys see about the world in which they live and their futures that causes them to kill themselves? And to kill others?) Image: John Vachon/Wikimedia Commons May 23, 2015 Researchers have found that rates of suicide among African-American children, specifically boys, have doubled since 1993, surpassing for the first time the rates among white children which dropped over the same period. The study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics Tuesday, was based on data obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which gives a breakdown of causes of death in 657 cases of suicide among children ages five to 11 between 1993 and 2012, 84 percent of whom were boys. Researchers were surprised to find that suicide rates among black boys ages five to 11 nearly doubled between 1993 and 2012, rising from 1.78 to 3.47 per million. This happened while the rates among white boys of the same age group decreased from 1.96 to 1.31 per million. Jeffrey Bridge, epidemiologist at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, who led the study, told CNN that the results were surprising because suicide rates have historically been higher among whites across the age groups. "Suicide rates in the U.S. have historically been higher among white individuals across all age groups. We were very surprised to see higher suicide rates among black children over time." "I was shocked, I'll be honest with you. I looked at it and I thought, 'Did we do the analysis correctly?' I thought we had made a mistake," he said. To confirm the trend, the researchers waited for a year until the 2012 data was released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data only confirmed the trend they had observed. Click Here to Read Full Story Click Here to See JAMA Report

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