Black American Children and Black Kids in America

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i'm an emigrant from the uc and white. So i've learned a lot through through his experience, including his childhood experience in that neighbourhood. The scale of our failure here is almost incomprehesible. One in four black boys are held back a grade by the end of high school. And then you you just read out the numbers around incarceration rates for black men too. It's literally unconscionable in a country as rich as ours that we should allow that to happen. Second that, as i said, the gap is huge by race. And it's really black kids a who are really the ones wish we most focused on.

Shermer and Reeves discuss: • comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries • education • work/labor market • family • marriage • Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support • intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men • intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men • What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) • what the political left gets wrong about boys and men • what the political right gets wrong about boys and men • solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL • fatherhood as an independent institution

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Boys and Men Project and holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It(2017) and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.