Report Focuses Strategy On Easing Plight of Black Men

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JACKSON - Statistics on racial disparities in education, health care and wealth are nothing new, but a report by a foundation is being used as a call to government and business for a focused strategy on easing the plight of black men across the South.

The Foundation of the Mid South studied boys and men ages 16 to 44 in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. Among findings of the new report: Black males are more likely to drop out of school, lack health insurance or die in a homicide when compared with their white counterparts.

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Report Focuses Strategy On Easing Plight of Black Men

The report also found that only 9.6 percent of black men in the three states had earned a college degree, compared with 18.4 percent for white men.

Chris Crothers, the a...

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