The John Mercer Langston Institute’s first annual economic brief on Black men and boys documents what aggregate data consistently obscures — and names the institutions responsible for closing the gap. Part of Structural Reality — examining the systems that shape access, opportunity, and everyday life for Black and Brown communities. NEWS DESK | SOCIAL STORYTELLERS…
An 18-year-old Black college athlete went to a Mississippi island with a group of friends on the Fourth of July. He was the only Black person there. He was the only one who didn’t come back. Nolan Xavier Wells was 18 years old, a student-athlete from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, with a football future ahead of…
New CDC data shows young Black men dying by suicide at a higher rate than young white men for the first time since the government began tracking it. For the first time since the federal government began collecting this data, young Black men are dying by suicide at a higher rate than young white men,…